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New Zealand aid agency Christian World Service is calling on New Zealanders to support a strongly-worded petition from the Pacific that lays out bluntly the effects of climate change on Pacific people. The Pacific Conference of Churches’ Moana Declaration and petition calls on the world community to take significant action to reduce greenhouse gases and […]
Read More...Former workers and widows of Morurua workers failed in their bid for compensation from the effects of nuclear testing from the French government. The industrial relations tribunal in Papeete found against the eight cases, although one family has received NZD $18 273 for each of three children of a deceased local veteran. Three former workers […]
Read More...A Pakistani aid worker is pleading for New Zealanders to help women forced from their homes and living in fear. Shama Mall, of aid agency Church World Service Pakistan/Afghanistan, which provides aid for the most vulnerable people in camps for internally displaced, says women are facing a major safety and healthcare crisis. Ms Mall works […]
Read More...Christian World Service has condemned Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully’s announcement that NZAID will be absorbed into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. In melding the two bodies, Mr McCully has shifted the emphasis of overseas development aid from poverty alleviation to economic growth. “Mr McCully is clearly operating from a different agenda and […]
Read More...New Zealand-based overseas aid agency Christian World Service has called on the government to pressure its Sri Lankan counterparts to negotiate an end to the quarter century conflict. Fierce fighting in Sri Lanka is all but over however the country still needs a political resolution to the conflict. CWS national director Pauline McKay says foreign […]
Read More...Fighting between government forces and Taliban in northern Pakistan has created a rapidly escalating humanitarian crisis, say the heads of a Pakistan relief agency visiting New Zealand. Shama Mall, a deputy director of Church World Service Pakistan/Afghanistan, says the situation at home for the 200,000 people forced to flee in the last two days is […]
Read More...New Zealand’s contribution in Afghanistan needs to focus on reducing the widespread poverty that leaves the country fractured and unstable, say visiting experts on Afghanistan. The New Zealand Government is reviewing New Zealand’s military role in Afghanistan. Recently, the United States requested New Zealand send its elite SAS unit back to Afghanistan, where New Zealand […]
Read More...CWS is calling for support for local organisations working to meet the immediate needs of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Sri Lanka. The priority is food, shelter and medical care to those in transit camps. According to the UN an estimated 100,000 – 200,000 people have been caught in the fighting between the Liberation Tigers […]
Read More...Development agencies Christian World Service (CWS) and Caritas say it’s time for Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully to come clean on the “Clayton’s review”* of government aid agency NZAID. There needs to be a frank and open dialogue with the development community and taxpayers about how the aid vote is best managed. NZAID was established […]
Read More...A Sri Lanka farmer leader who represents 1.8 million farmers in his country will talk to New Zealand Dairy Workers Union members in Hamilton this Friday (April 3) to express fears about intensive farming on the environment. Sarath Fernando, director of Sri Lanka agriculture group Movement for Land and Agriculture Reform (Monlar) is in New […]
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Christian World Service
PO Box 22652
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
Christian World Service is recorded on the Charities Register. The Registration number is CC22288.
