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Christian Aid welcomes G7 backing for campaign to drop Haiti's debt
February 7 2010 - G7 finance ministers have joined the growing chorus of demands for the International Monetary Fund to drop Haiti's debt burden, in a move welcomed today by Christian Aid.
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Applause for new plan on international sharing of tax information
January 27 2010 - UK government plans to promote a new treaty allowing developing countries to share tax information held by rich countries are extremely welcome, says Christian Aid today.
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Christian Aid launches petition: Drop Haiti's $890 million debt now
January 20 2010 - Christian Aid today launches a petition to urge the Chancellor of the Exchequer to do all he can to get Haiti’s entire $890 million international debt burden cancelled immediately.
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Christian Aid launch emergency £1m Haiti earthquake appeal
January 13 2010 - Christian Aid has launched a £1m emergency appeal for victims of the Haiti earthquake. Thousands of people are already feared dead and many more are believed to be critically injured. Countless are thought to be homeless.
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Sudanese Archbishop in London to back new drive for peace in Sudan
January 9 2010 - Sudanese Archbishop Daniel Deng of the Episcopal Church of Sudan is visiting the UK this week to support a new international campaign calling on world leaders to take urgent action to support peace in Sudan.
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Cartoonists show futility of Palestinian-Israeli conflict
January 8 2010 - An international group of acclaimed cartoonists demonstrate the destructive absurdity of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for an exhibition opening this month in London.
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Copenhagen 'a tragedy' for millions of people in poor countries.
December 19 2009 - The failure of the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen to deliver a fair, ambitous and binding deal will harm the many millions of people in developing countries who are already suffering the effects of climate change.
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Christian Aid urges other countries to follow Salmond's lead
December 16 2009 - Christian Aid welcomed an assurance from First Minister Alex Salmond yesterday that Scotland would not use the carbon markets to reach its emission cuts target of 42 per cent by 2020.
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Stay in Copenhagen until you make a fab deal, world leaders urged
December 16 2009 - Nelson Muffuh, Christian Aid’s Senior Climate Advocacy Adviser, today urged heads of state and government meeting in Copenhagen to show leadership now while there is still time - and come up with a fair, ambitious and binding (FAB) deal on climate change.
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New ‘Danish texts’ threaten to undermine climate talks
December 16 2009 - Nelson Muffuh, Senior Climate Advocacy Coordinator at Christian Aid, says: 'In his haste to push the talks along and have some sort of 'success' to declare on Friday, the newly appointed COP President, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, has introduced a new 'Danish draft.’
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Christian Aid appoints new director
December 15 2009 - Christian Aid is delighted to announce the appointment of a new director.
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Christian Aid backs Africa bid to focus talks on Kyoto
December 14 2009 - Christian Aid today backed demands by African countries that the future of the Kyoto Protocol should take precedence at the UN’s Copenhagen climate change summit and that talks be focused on this issue and no other until it is resolved.
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Photo opportunities in Copenhagen 12 and 13 December
December 11 2009 - Major public events this weekend, 12 and 13 December on climate change in Copenhagen
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New EU finance offer a betrayal of developing countries
December 11 2009 - European faith-based development agencies say EU leaders who met in Brussels for the last time before going to Copenhagen have failed to show their commit to a just and effective financing deal for a new global agreement on climate change.
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Christian Aid awarded humanitarian accountability standard
December 10 2009 - Christian Aid has become the largest development agency in the UK, and the first in the Republic of Ireland, to be awarded the Humanitarian Accountability and Quality Management Standard (HAP) for its humanitarian, development and advocacy work in developing countries.
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Leaked Danish text ‘A huge and dangerous step in the wrong direction’
December 8 2009 - Christian Aid is alarmed and profoundly disappointed by the ‘Danish Text’ leaked today at the climate talks in Copenhagen.
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8,000 flood to The Wave in Glasgow to demand action on climate change
December 5 2009 - Over 8,000 people joined The Wave, Scotland’s biggest ever demonstration to demand action on climate change.
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Stop gambling with planet's future and save Kyoto
December 3 2009 - Dumping the world’s only legal agreement on fighting climate change would be gambling with the future of the planet and the world’s poorest people, four major campaign groups warn today.
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Major work needed after opening of Sri Lanka camps
December 2 2009 - Christian Aid welcomes the government’s move to give freedom of movement to thousands of Sri Lankan civilians held in internment camps.
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Unavoidable climate change will cost Africa at least $26 billion a year
November 27 2009 - Unavoidable climate change will cost Africa at least 1.7 per cent of its GDP by 2040 – US$26.35 billion a year at current rates - and leave millions more people suffering from hunger, diseases, floods and water shortages, a new study warns today, (Friday 27 November).
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Obama must have a return ticket to Copenhagen
November 25 2009 - Christian Aid is delighted that President Obama will attend the UN climate talks in Copenhagen on December 9 but is urging him to return to the conference after collecting his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
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Soul diva Beverley Knight launches charity Christmas sing at Natural History Museum ice rink
November 24 2009 - Hundreds of ice skaters will join three-time MOBO award-winner Beverley Knight in a free charity Christmas performance at 5.30pm on Thursday 3 December, at the Natural History Museum ice rink in South Kensington, London.
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Churches say: Act now on climate change
November 23 2009 - Sixteen leaders of Christian Churches in the UK will attend an ecumenical service in London on 5 December to urge political leaders meeting in Copenhagen to ‘Act now on climate change’.
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Top UK percussionists record unusual Christmas carol for charity
November 18 2009 - Dame Evelyn Glennie and Shovell of M People, voted the UK’s top two live solo percussionists, have collaborated to record a Christmas track with a difference called Present Aid Unplugged to promote virtual charity gift catalogue www.presentaid.org/unplugged
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Do you know any tax superheroes?
November 18 2009 - Christian Aid today launches its latest Alternative Tax Award – Tax Superhero of the Year – and invites nominations of suitably qualified firms and individuals.
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UN corruption convention rendered toothless
November 13 2009 - Doha: A handful of countries are responsible for the failure of a crucial meeting to agree to an effective mechanism that would give a global anti-corruption treaty real power, said Christian Aid, Global Witness, and Tearfund today.
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More than 100 MPs sign climate change EDM
November 11 2009 - More than 100 MPs have so far signed an early day motion calling on the UK government to urge the EU to take a stronger stand in tackling climate change.
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New coal plans need clean-up to fight climate change
November 9 2009 - New government plans to clean up coal power stations are too weak to ensure that the UK keeps its promises to cut carbon emissions, Christian Aid says today (Monday, 9 November).
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Landmark anti-corruption deal in danger, warns Christian Aid
November 4 2009 - A landmark piece of legislation intended to precipitate a global crackdown on corruption is in danger of losing all credibility because of a row over how it is monitored, warns Christian Aid.
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Don't let them blow it in Copenhagen
November 4 2009 - Christian Aid campaigners today marked bonfire night by sending a clear message to world leaders attending climate change negations in Copenhagen next month – don’t blow it!
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Guilt free chocolate this christmas
November 4 2009 - This Christmas, Present Aid offers an alternative gift for chocoholics that is not only calorie free but also helps poor farmers cope with the impact of climate change.
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Afghan president must tackle poverty as top priority
November 2 2009 - The failure to conclude a legitimate presidential election is the latest betrayal of the Afghan people who continue to suffer from poverty and the dire security situation, Christian Aid says.
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Congo crisis made worse by UN-backed military operation
November 2 2009 - A year since Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s visit to DRC, Christian Aid warns that military action will not solve the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since January the UN-backed military operations against Rwandan Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels have exacerbated the humanitarian crisis and have not solved the long-standing problem of foreign armed groups operating in DRC. The operations have dispersed rather than contained the FDLR, increasing the risk of reprisal attacks on civilians.
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New league table of world's most secretive tax havens
November 01 2009 - A league table of the world’s most secretive tax havens has been compiled by campaigners seeking greater transparency about the operation of ‘offshore’ finance centres.
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EU leaders threatening to 'kill off' last hopes of a global climate deal
October 30 2009 - EU leaders are threatening to ‘kill off’ any remaining hope of a good global deal to combat climate change, Christian Aid campaigners are warning today.
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Treasury review highlights UK responsibilty for tax havens
October 29 2009 - Christian Aid welcomes the Foot Report on British offshore financial centres as a further sign that the UK is taking responsibility for its major role in the global problem of tax havens.
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EU finance ministers betray the poor on climate change
October 20 2009 - Christian Aid is alarmed to hear that the European finance ministers’ meeting to discuss climate finance today in Luxembourg has broken up without agreement.
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Christian Aid working to help victims of India floods
October 14 2009 - The poorest regions of southern India have been hit by the heaviest rains in more than a century, leaving more than 300 people dead and 1.5 million homeless.
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Carbon capture companies must share results with poor countries
October 12 2009 - Companies which receive millions of pounds of UK taxpayers’ money to test carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology on power plants must be willing to produce results relevant to poor as well as rich countries, says a new report.
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Climate talks ‘moving backwards and in to grave danger’
October 9 2008 - Progress on a global climate deal went into reverse during the Bangkok talks which closed today (Friday 9 October), jeopardising years of hard-won progress and threatening to tip the world into catastrophic global warming.
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Christian Aid to send €100,000 to help earthquake victims
October 5 2009 - Emergency teams from Christian Aid partner agencies have reached areas most affected by the Indonesian earthquake, Padang and the coastal city further north, Pariaman on the island of Sumatra.
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Developing countries supported by Scottish Government lose millions through tax dodging
October 2 2009 - The five countries that receive money from the Scottish government’s international development fund lose millions every year through tax dodging, according to a new Christian Aid report. The Missing Millions, the cost of tax dodging to developing countries supported by the Scottish government details how, collectively, the countries lost just under £43 million in tax revenue between 2005 and 2007.
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Christian Aid launches Indonesia earthquake appeal
October 1 2009 - Christian Aid today launched an emergency appeal for victims of the Indonesia earthquake. Its partner agencies in the country have already sent emergency task forces to the affected area.
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Christian Aid welcomes PM’s aid pledge
September 29 2009 - Christian Aid welcomed Gordon Brown’s pledge to introduce legislation to force British governments to spend 0.7 per cent of GDP on international aid in his speech at the Labour Party conference.
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