by Sean Reilly | Feb 8, 2008
UK government plans to spend £100 million over the next five years helping poorer countries deal with the impact of global warming is a welcome acknowledgement of the “carbon debt” industrialised countries owe the developing world, says international...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 6, 2008
There are fears that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is set to worsen after a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court, supported by church and civil rights groups (both Palestinian and Israeli), failed to stop the government from stepping up its blockade of fuel...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 6, 2008
As part of a global coalition of church bodies, the UK international development agency Christian Aid is working with the United Nations to assess the needs of the people of East Africa’s Great Lakes region after it was struck by a major earthquake leaving 39...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 30, 2008
News that Dr Atiq Rahman, executive director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), will receive the United Nations Environment Programme’s Champions of the Earth Award 2008 for the Asia Pacific region has been welcomed by Christian Aid, which works...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 27, 2008
Christian Aid and other church groups say that the breach of the border between Gaza and Egypt demonstrates the desperation of a people held hostage to both a policy of collective punishment and an inadequate peace process. Christian Aid, the UK-based international...
