New Faculty Program Teaches about Global Issues
June 29, 2012
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) launched a new program with Catholic universities called Scholars in Global Solidarity (SGS) on June 25, 2012. With SGS, CRS will engage faculty at Catholic universities to exchange expertise on global issues and to apply that knowledge both to academic life on campus and to CRS’ work overseas. The program builds [...]
Locusts Threatening Fragile Sahel Region
June 28, 2012
With the Sahel region already facing food shortages and a potential full-scale emergency, the region now faces further difficulties from increased locust activity. FEWS NET (the Famine Early Warning Systems Network) warns that anticipated locust breeding in Niger and Mali this month and in Chad and Mauritania in the coming weeks could cause large numbers of [...]
Senate Passes Farm Bill, Moves to the House
June 27, 2012
The Senate late last week passed a Farm Bill that includes some important provisions that will help maintain our nation’s leadership role in the world to confront global hunger. Some of the important improvements regarding global hunger that were included in the Senate-passed Farm Bill are: Increased resources to purchase food closer to hunger-affected communities [...]
CRS in the HuffPost: Amid Crisis, a Warm Burkina Faso Welcome
June 26, 2012
Helen Blakesley, CRS’ regional information officer based in Dakar, Senegal, recently traveled to Burkina Faso to document the effects of the food crisis. She writes a blog post for the Huffington Post, part of a series on the Sahel by humanitarian organizations, in which she describes her surprise at the reception she received. What struck [...]
CRS Appealing for Help in Housing Filipino Storm Victims
June 26, 2012
Catholic San Francisco recently wrote about Catholic Relief Services’ efforts in the Philippines, where the emergency response to victims of Tropical Storm Washi continues: Catholic Relief Services needs help funding temporary shelters for 1,500 Filipino families who lost their homes in Tropical Storm Washi, which struck Mindanao last Dec. 16-17, CRS’ Philippines country representative Joe Curry [...]
State Department Releases Report on Human Trafficking
June 25, 2012
On June 19th, the U.S. Department of State released its annual Trafficking in Persons report, which rates countries on their compliance with Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s (TVPA) minimum standards. Quoting the International Labor Organization, the 2012 report states an estimated 20.9 million people are now victims of forced labor. CRS’ slavery and human trafficking programs [...]
Summary of Carolyn Woo's Speech to CMC 2012, in Tweets
June 22, 2012
Catholic Relief Services’ president Carolyn Woo gave a keynote address at the Catholic Media Conference on June 21st. Here is a summary of her speech, captured in tweets and photos sent by audience members. A special thanks to America Magazine for the great tweeting. READ TWEETS FROM BOTTOM TO TOP. http://storify.com/CRSnews/carolyn-woo-s-speech-to-cmc2012 [<a href="http://storify.com/CRSnews/carolyn-woo-s-speech-to-cmc2012" target="_blank">View [...]
Egan Award for Journalistic Excellence Winners Announced
June 22, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kim Pozniak Catholic Relief Services (410) 951-7399 kim.pozniak@crs.org Catholic Relief Services Honors Outstanding Catholic Journalists Baltimore, MD, June 21, 2012 – The winners of the 2012 Egan Award for Journalistic Excellence competition were announced today at Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) Baltimore headquarters. The award recognizes journalists who have written about humanitarian and [...]
CRS Staffer Listed in Top 50 Latinos on Twitter
June 21, 2012
CRS staffer Alsy Acevedo was named one of the 50 Top Latino Voices to Follow on Twitter by Pablo Manriquez of the Huffington Post. Originally from Puerto Rico, Ms. Acevedo is Catholic Relief Services’ Communications Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean, and regularly tweets in both English and Spanish. You can follow her at [...]
Statistics from UNHCR on World Refugees
June 20, 2012
Today is World Refugee Day, which gives us a chance to look at the situation of refugees around the world. According to the latest 2011 figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): 42.5 million people were forcibly displaced due to new and persistent conflicts. Developing countries hosted four-fifths of the world’s refugees. [...]