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Caritas to stress delivering for the poor at World Economic Forum in Davos

17/08/2008 Advocacy, Development, High-Level Meetings and Events, News, Poverty Elimination, Press Release, SDG, World Economic Forum by Caritas Communications

Vatican City, 17 January – Caritas Internationalis Secretary General Lesley-Anne Knight will call for a renewed commitment to tackling poverty from the world’s most powerful political and economic leaders as she attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. The Secretary General of the Caritas Confederation’s 162 national Catholic charities says that reviving momentum ...

Millennium Development Goals Reloaded

17/08/2008 Advocacy, Development, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

A hundred and eighty nine governments signed up to the Millennium Declaration in the Year 2000 as their promise to tackle unjustifiable poverty in developing countries. It’s a promise Caritas will not let them dodge. The declaration was the springboard for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight highly focused targets to be implemented and achieved ...

Caritas Internationalis Secretary General Lesley-Anne Knight reports from the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland…

17/08/2008 Advocacy, Development, Europe, High-Level Meetings and Events, Poverty Elimination, SDG, Switzerland, World Economic Forum by Caritas Communications

Day One at Davos and I am not surprised that many participants are preoccupied by the possibility of recession in the USA – this is after all an economic forum. I am, however, pleasantly surprised to find that issues more relevant to CI, such as poverty reduction and climate change have not entirely slipped off ...

Make aid work at Accra summit

17/08/2008 Africa, Development, High-Level Meetings and Events, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

About 29,000 children under the age of five die every day, that’s 21 each minute, mainly from preventable causes. Caritas has joined African Churches and international faith based organisations to say that we can do something about this by using aid as a hand up rather than a hand out. The power to do that ...

African Church calls for better aid

17/08/2008 Advocacy, Africa, Development, High-Level Meetings and Events, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

Church leaders in Africa say development aid to the poorest must not just be measured in quantity but also in the extent it transforms the lives of the poor. In a ecumenical statement released ahead of a key aid effectiveness summit in Accra, Ghana, 2 – 4 September, the AACC (All Africa Conference of Churches) ...

Imagine globalisation based on solidarity: World Youth Day

16/08/2008 Asia, Catholic Teaching, Development, India, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

The golden lion of the Sri Lankan flag fluttered in the icy breeze at a bus stop crowded with pilgrims attending Sydney’s World Youth Day in Australia. Beside the Sri Lankan colours, pilgrims waved a pennant displaying the Indian tricolour. Toward the back of the group, Pakistan’s green and white flag billowed. This small vignette ...

Imagine globalisation based on solidarity: Micro-finance in Africa

16/08/2008 Advocacy, Africa, Development, Ethiopia, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

Caritas Africa and its partners held a forum in September in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on how micro-finance programmes can create livelihoods to lift millions of people out of poverty. Caritas in Africa is running many micro-finance programmes to provide access to small amounts of capital to help people set up businesses. The programmes ...

Imagine globalisation based on solidarity: View from the summit

16/08/2008 Advocacy, Asia, Development, High-Level Meetings and Events, Japan, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

In January, Caritas Internationalis Secretary-General Lesley-Anne Knight found common ground at the World Economic Forum in Davos as business and political leaders highlighted the importance of faith-based organisations in achieving the MDGs. In April, Pope Benedict XVI visited the UN in New York. “Questions of security, development goals, reduction of local and global inequalities, protection ...

Hunger and HIV

16/08/2008 Africa, Development, Food, Health, HIV & AIDS, Kenya, Malnutrition, SDG by Caritas Communications

“People know that HIV will kill them within months, but hunger might kill them by the end of the week,” said Dr John Mundi Amolo as he makes his tour of the HIV and AIDS patients admitted to Mutomo Hospital in Kenya. “If someone has only 50 bob [35 pence], then they would rather buy ...

Halftime but not halfway: MDGS and HIV

15/08/2008 Advocacy, Development, Health, High-Level Meetings and Events, HIV & AIDS, SDG by Caritas Communications

The Millennium Development Goals form a plan agreed by world leaders to help millions of people out of poverty by 2015. Caritas is a supporter of Stand Up, a global mobilisation to end poverty and inequality and for the MDGs. This year, we are asking people to Stand Up and Take Action on October 17-19, to ensure ...