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.
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...
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...
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,...
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.
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...
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...
‘Amazon at Risk – it affects us all’ This was the theme of an event held in Belém, in
the Brazilian Amazon, which started on 28 October 2019. The event was organized
by Christian Aid partner Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB) -The
Movement of People Affected by Dams.
The meeting also
convened the We Are...
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Lucha Libre programme. Interview (in Spanish) with Susana Erostegui, Director of the NITA network and Dino Palacios of Fundación Ciudad, two of the organizations which signed the Communiqué. Video produced by UNITAS, Christian Aid partner and one of the signatories to the declaration.
More than 50 development and human rights institutions...
After the
Catholic Church started the preparation for its Amazon Synod, Christian Aid’s Latin
America and the Caribbean division worked with faith-based organisations across
the region. Together they created a declaration to support the Synod and to ask
that all decisions be made taking into account the peoples of the Amazon
forest. This declaration, called We are the Amazon, highlights the commitments...