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Archive of Progressio's news stories:

Zimbabwe Election Update (17 Apr 2008 )
Nearly three weeks have passed since Zimbabwe's March 29 elections and full results are still pending. Despite our combined efforts to ensure that South Africa, which currently holds the presidency of the UN Security Council, take a lead in mediating in the crisis, few concrete steps have been made to halt the current and escalating unrest in Zimbabwe. At an extraordinary meeting of the South African Development Community (SADC) in Zambian capital Lusaka on Saturday, South African President, Thabo Mbeki, opted for "quiet diplomacy". He now looks unlikely to lead a SADC response to the situation.

Remembering Romero (25 Mar 2008 )
At this time of year we celebrate the resurrection, the power of life over death and of hope over despair. We also remember the single biggest protest in El Salvador’s history.

Catholics have begun to rise to the challenge of HIV and AIDS in Haiti (15 Feb 2008 )
AIDS is the leading cause of death among Haitian women aged between 15 and 49 according to UN and World Health Organisation figures, writes Lizzette Robleto, Progressio’s regional advocacy coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean.

True picture of HIV and AIDS in Haiti shows poverty and injustice biggest hurdle (29 Jan 2008 )
Progressio's latest briefing, HIV and AIDS in Haiti, examines how years of political chaos in Haiti has allowed HIV and AIDS to flourish, leaving it with the highest incidence of HIV in the world outside sub-Saharan Africa at 3.8 per cent and with AIDS as the leading cause of death in Haitian women aged between 15 and 49.

Valentine to European commissioner to fight ‘Zombie seeds’ (28 Jan 2008 )
International development agency Progressio is calling on its supporters to send a Valentine's message to the European Commissioner for the Environment, Stavros Dimas, to 'love people and the planet' on 14 February.

Spreading the word of Populorum Progressio in Ecuador: 40 years on (24 Jan 2008 )
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the encyclical Populorum Progressio (from which Progressio gets its name), one of our partner organisations in Ecuador, Fondo Ecuatoriano Populorum Progressio (FEPP), organised a conference in Quito last year to spread the social teaching in the encyclical and analyse its relevance today, writes Michelle Lowe.

Time to pay our ecological debt to the poor (17 Jan 2008 )
Forgive me if I’m not leaping for joy at the news that the US government has finally agreed to take part in talks about cutting greenhouse gas emissions after the current Kyoto Framework expires in 2012, writes Progressio's advocacy manager Joanne Green.

Will Ecuador’s constituent assembly listen to its people on water and the environment? (14 Dec 2007 )
At the end of November, a special government assembly sat for the first time to begin drafting the country’s new constitution. The constitution was the anti-corruption election promise of president Rafael Correa last year, and there are now high hopes from many that an equitable management of the country’s environmental resources might finally be enshrined in constitutional law.

Imams and khateebs helping in the fight against HIV and AIDS in Yemen (3 Dec 2007 )
1 December 2007 was World AIDS Day. Since 1988, 1 December has been a day to commemorate those who have died of an HIV-related condition; stand in solidarity with the 33.2 million people estimated by UNAIDS to be currently living with HIV; and unite in the fight against this disease by providing information and banishing discrimination against those affected or infected by the virus.