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• Survivor focus ‘needed to tackle sexual violence against aid workers’: new guidelines

  Thursday 21 March 2019

  Sexual violence against aid workers: launch of new guidelines
  

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• Christian Aid launches emergency appeal as Cyclone Idai causes death and destruction in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe

  Tuesday, 19 March 2019

  More than a million people have been affected by severe flooding in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe with the numbers rising [...]
  

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• Global climate school strike shows democratic deficit of climate change says Christian Aid

  Friday, March 15th, 2019

  (Now with B-roll footage from today's strike in London plus a piece to camera from Sarah Rowe, campaigns officer, Christian [...]
  

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• Christian Aid responds to Burkina Faso emergency that has displaced 100,000 people

  Monday 11th March, 2019

  Conflict in Burkina Faso has seen more than 100,000 people flee their homes creating a growing humanitarian emergency. The West African [...]
  

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• Christian Aid welcomes MPs' report into forced displacement in Africa but says humanitarian system must boost funding for local responders

  5 March 2019

  Christian Aid welcomes MPs' report into forced displacement in Africa but says humanitarian system must boost funding for local responders
  

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• Christian Aid calls for calm after postponement of Nigeria's general election

  18 February 2019

  Christian Aid has called for calm after Nigeria's General Election was postponed on Saturday.
   
  

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• Christian Aid issues plea for 'free, fair and peaceful' elections in Nigeria this weekend

  15 February 2019

  As the presidential polls approach, Christian Aid in  Nigeria has pushed for a credible, democratic election process.
  

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• Christian Aid: The voices of the schoolchildren striking for the climate must be heard

  Embargoed for 00:01 Friday, February 15th, 2019

  As school pupils across the UK go on strike on Friday at the lack of progress to tackle climate change, [...]
  

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• Time to translate rhetoric into action for forcibly displaced people across Africa

  12 February 2019

  Time to translate rhetoric into action for forcibly displaced people across Africa
  

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• "Britain’s aid budget is a badge of honour worthy of pride and fierce defence"

  30 January 2019

  Now is not the time to cause further uncertainty for the world’s poorest.
  

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