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  • 16 Nov 2012
    UK should help Pakistan catch tax dodgers, says Christian Aid

    The UK Government is being challenged to help Pakistan boost its disastrously low tax revenues by breaking down global financial secrecy.

  • 6 Nov 2012
    Prime Minister challenged over disabled people and development

    UK-based disability charities have called on Prime Minister David Cameron to put disabled people at the heart of international development plans.

  • 4 Nov 2011
    G20 leaked draft weak on development, says CAFOD

    The development ambitions of the G20 are not evident in the draft summit communique leaked to the media this morning (4 November), says CAFOD.

  • 25 Sep 2011
    Welcome for initiatives to improve women's lives

    Two UK government initiatives to improve the lives of women in the developing world have been welcomed by Christian Aid this past week.

  • 8 Jul 2011
    East Africa: Behind the famine

    Millions of people across East Africa are looking down the barrel of the worst famine for 60 years. Thousands of families have picked up their possessions to walk towards what they hope is better pasture land, towards countries that might hold the promise of food.

  • 13 Jun 2011
    Working for positive change in Yemen

    Yemen has been much in the news of late – and the situation there is often portrayed rather negatively. Ekklesia’s Simon Barrow interviewed Progressio’s enterprising on-the-ground representative in Yemen, Abeer Al-Absi, to find out how she sees the situation, and to discover how the strands of hope can be threaded together. The discussion includes the role of women and the HIV-AIDS challenge.

  • 5 Jan 2011
    Can Ghana's progress be sustained?

    The current government in Ghana has declared that it intends to make the West African nation a 'first world' country by 2020. That is clearly fanciful, but recent oil discoveries mean that huge amounts of money will undoubtedly be spent over the next ten years. The question is, what will this mean for the people of Ghana as a whole, and especially for those trying to escape poverty?

  • 20 Oct 2010
    Christian Aid welcomes government aid pledge amid cuts

    Christian Aid has welcomed the UK government’s international aid pledge, while acknowledging the pain of public spending cuts victims in Britain.

  • 14 Oct 2010
    Churches prioritise peace, migrants' rights, religious freedom and development

    Peace, migrants' rights, freedom of religion, security and development are the four priority themes adopted by the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs.

  • 22 Jun 2010
    Poor have missed out in Chancellor's plans, says Oxfam

    The government has missed an opportunity to raise more money to protect the poorest in the UK from spending cuts and VAT rises, and help tackle global poverty and climate change, says Oxfam.