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Presentación del Informe sobre Derecho a la alimentación en Guatemala
El 22 de octubre de 2015, ACT Alliance EU, CIDSE, CIFCA, FIAN, Via Campesina y REl-Uita presentaron en la Ciudad de Guatemala el Informe de la Tercera Misión Internacional en Guatemala sobre el Derecho a una Alimentación Adecuada y la Situación de las Personas Defensoras de Derechos Humanos. En la p...
Finnish government cuts in development cooperation
The Finnish government cuts 43% of its funding for Finn Church Aid development cooperation compared to the level of 2015. As a result of the cuts, Finn Church Aid is forced to close down its operations completely in five countries and cut down its operations in many others. Nearly half a million peo...
ACT Alliance EU warmly welcomes the new Encyclical “Laudato si’” on Care for our Common Home, published last week, from Pope Francis, and its analysis and recommendations to tackle seriously the issues of climate change and environmental degradation which threaten God's creation, all of humanity, an...
A climate momentum that must be used
Written by Christina Ihler Madsen, Climate Change Advocacy Intern at Dan Church Aid. Right now negotiators from all over the world have gathered in Bonn to resume the UN climate talks. There is optimism in the air, but to make the climate summit in December, COP21, into a success, optimism needs...
In Geneva, negotiators leave the job half done
Last week, negotiators from all countries gathered in Geneva for the first round of climate negotiations this year and agreed on a new draft text to be adopted in Paris in December. With 86 pages, 54000 words, 1234 square brackets, the text doubled in size from the previously agreed version, the so-...
2015, Governments of the World must reconnect with climate reality
The annual UN Climate Conference, held in Lima end of last year, was critically important as it aimed to pave the way for reaching a new post-2020 climate international agreement in Paris by December 2015 and for the first time it aimed to include all countries in the efforts to fight climate change...