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Tonight (31 March) the Make Poverty History campaign will make television history.
At 7.58pm a short film featuring Brad Pitt, Bono, Cameron Diaz and many more famous faces, will be broadcast across almost every TV channel, showing exactly why the ... |
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The earthquake off the coast of Sumatra which last night (March 28th) killed hundreds of people has heightened the trauma and fear felt by many thousands of people across the region, report Tearfund relief workers in Indonesia.
Jon Kennedy, Tearfund... |
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In the wake of today's announcement by Hilary Benn that the UK is to double its funding for water and sanitation in Africa, Christian relief and development agency Tearfund is urging the Government to take a lead within the G8 group of the world’s most powerful nations to reverse a trend which sees most international aid money for water going to middle income countries rather than the poorest countries who need it most. |
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As the three-month anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami approaches, aid agencies today urged Hilary Benn to ensure the tsunami’s survivors are consulted on the recovery stage of the aid effort. |
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Most international aid money for tackling the global water crisis is going to wealthier countries rather than the billions of people in the poorest countries who lack access to safe water and sanitation, says a report launched on World Water Day by C... |
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The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) today said that to date it has allocated over £112 million of its tsunami earthquake appeal fund for the first phase of disaster relief in Asia, funding work that is benefiting an estimated 3.6 million people.T... |
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An historic meeting this week of environment and development ministers from the world’s richest countries must live up to Tony Blair’s stated commitment to use the UK’s G8 and EU presidencies to make a breakthrough on Africa and climate change, says ... |
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Stars from stage, screen and the music world will be among thousands of people rallying in Westminster on Friday 15 April to call for trade justice not free trade.
Singer Ronan Keating said, "It will be an important event with millions of people all... |
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The Archbishop of Tanzania, The Most Reverend Donald Mtetemela, has welcomed the Commission for Africa’s recommendations to tackle corruption, and boost aid, debt relief and just trade, but says positive plans will be wasted if they do not reach and ... |
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As Fairtrade Fortnight gets underway today (1-13 March), Mari Griffith, Tearfund's Trade Campaigns Officer, reports from Peru on how our consumer choices can help to overcome poverty.
The long leaves of the banana trees provide much-welcomed shade... |
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