Nicaragua and Honduras brace themselves, as Christian Aid continues its response to the ongoing emergency
The category 5 Hurricane Iota is due to make landfall in Nicaragua tonight, hitting the same parts of the country as Hurricane Eta did less than two weeks ago. Landslides and floods have already caused devastation across the region with millions of people affected. Homes...
Crop eradication in Colombia is negating the crop substitution programme, causing violence and undermining the peace process, warns Christian Aid.
Plans to build a massive EHV 230 kV power line 225 kms long from Óbidos in Pará state across the Amazon river to Parintins in Amazonas state, are being rushed through without prior consultation with the quilombola and riverine communities that will be affected. The power company applied for the provisional environmental permit to be set aside on the...
Christian Aid responds to prospect of DFID losing its independence
LAB adds: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced to parliament on 16 June that DFID, the Department for International Development, responsible for all UK overseas aid, will be merged with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the UK's ministry for foreign affairs.
While Latin America has historically counted for only a small...
Written by Christian Aid’s Kate Newman and Karen Brock, based on conversations with Pedro Lazaro, Thomas Mortensen and Alejandra Albizu.
For more than two decades, Christian Aid and its partners, including the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace (CIJP), have been working to tackle violence and build peace in Colombia. Ten Years, a long-term study of change being undertaken...
For more than two decades, Christian Aid and its partners, including the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace (CIJP), have been working to tackle violence and build peace in Colombia. Ten Years, a long-term study of change being undertaken by Christian Aid’s Research, Evidence and Learning team, first begun around three years ago following the signing of a Peace...
Christian Aid and its partners have been working to tackle violence and build peace in Colombia for more than two decades. Three years ago, shortly after the government of Colombia signed a Peace Agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Christian Aid’s Research, Evidence and Learning team began to design Ten Years, a long-term...
Christian Aid and its partners have been working to tackle
violence and build peace in Colombia for more than two decades. Three years
ago, shortly after the government of Colombia signed a Peace Agreement with the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Christian Aid’s Research,
Evidence and Learning team began to design Ten Years, a long-term study of
change.
Ten Years is asking how the...
The 8th March is celebrated as International Women’s Day. However, in
Guatemala for the past three years, the day has been a painful reminder of the
long road towards gender equity, and the potentially lethal consequences of continuing
misogynistic and violent attitudes towards women.
On this day three years ago, 41 girls and young women died by
asphyxiation and fatal burns in a...
Learning a language always opens
our eyes. Communicating in another language does not mean just translating
word-by-word ideas and concepts, but rather this journey forces us to learn new
ways of seeing the world. Let’s take, for example, something as simple as a
greeting: “how are you?” The variations of this oh-so-common phrase can tell us
a lot about a people’s culture. In Chinese...