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Progressio Statement on the outcome of Copenhagen: The Copenhagen COP15 summit has not delivered a fair, ambitious, and binding deal on climate change.
This represents an unacceptable failure of global leadership. Climate change is already happening and the poorest people of the world are often hit first and worst. The voices of people worldwide…
admin, 19th December 2009
Copenhagen Summit: Archbishop of Canterbury tells indigenous farmer "your voice is vital"
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has told an indigenous Ecuadorean farmer that her voice and the voices of the world’s poor are critical to achieving a strong climate deal for the…
admin, 14th December 2009
Ongoing political instability threatens long-term development in Honduras
By Michael IrelandChief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service On the eve of presidential elections in Honduras, an international human rights organization says ongoing political instability threatens to…
admin, 27th November 2009
New Report: Millions will go hungry without urgent support for poor farmers
Many millions of people in poor countries will go hungry when future global food crises strike unless the world’s half a billion small-scale farms receive urgent funding and support from the UK and…
admin, 16th November 2009
Progressio tells government: UK support for Latin America “vital” to help poor people cope with climate change
Poor and marginalised people in Latin America will suffer devastating losses as a result of climate change, despite the fact that they have done little to contribute to global warming, Progressio…
admin, 21st October 2009
Nobel Prize winner to urge global policy-makers to find new ways to tackle climate change
A Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist will urge global policy-makers to find a way to tackle climate change and poverty together in a speech in London. Just weeks before 192 nations meet to thrash…
admin, 16th October 2009
Churches called to take part in climate change cocoa challenge
Picture this: A trio of 1950s housewives helps to launch Progressio’s Just Add Water campaign. The campaign is calling on the UK and other governments to help fight the effects of climate change and…
admin, 1st October 2009
Concern at indefinite postponement of Somaliland presidential poll, say election observers
As part of the UK-based team coordinating election observers for the much-delayed presidential elections in the internationally unrecognised Republic of Somaliland, Progressio today expresses its…
Progressio, 17th September 2009
Somaliland electoral crisis must be resolved urgently, leading authorities say
Leading authorities on Somaliland – including notable scholars and members of the UK-based team coordinating observers for the country’s much-delayed presidential elections – have issued an urgent…
Daniel Hale, 15th September 2009
Poor farmers escape poverty by going organic, says Progressio
As debate rages in Britain about the relative benefits of organic food, Progressio says that ‘going organic’ is changing the lives of poor farmers and their families across the developing world….
Daniel Hale, 6th August 2009