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 | Jan 22, 2008
The UK wing of the global social investment initiative Oikocredit has teamed up with the Livesimply campaign to promote a shared vision for social justice. Oikocredit provides vital loans to creative but impoverished communities. Launched in November 2006, Livesimply...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 18, 2008
The new cooperative body Christian Churches Together in the USA (CCT), bringing together representatives of 43 participating churches and organizations across America, is giving priority to work on poverty and witness. CCT now represents the broadest ever national...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 15, 2008
Oikocredit, a global member-based social investment co-operative which makes small loans to hundreds of vital development projects, has expressed hope that it will “really take off” in the UK after receiving its first major contribution. The Society of the...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 14, 2008
UK-based international development agency Christian Aid is calling on the British Government to push for a comprehensive review of “serious, damaging flaws” in trade agreements forced upon a number of developing countries in recent weeks by the European...
