“Planting medicinal plants in our villages is important so that we can look after people and they can be healthy.”

— Children’s eco club, Tamil Nadu, India supported by CWS

Useful Links

 

The following sites will give you more information on the issues CWS works on:

 

 CWS Networks

 Topics

International:

Climate Change

ACT International: Global alliance for emergency relief IPCC Intergovermental panel on climate change
ACT Development: Global alliance for development

Fair Trade

Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance campaigning against global injustice

Fair Trade Association of Australia & NZ

Trade Aid

Jubilee UK: Drop the debt campaign

Jubilee USA: Debt campaign

World Council of Churches

Decade to Overcome Violence: Churches seeking reconciliation and peace

Food

Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations

New Zealand

International news

Jubilee Aotearoa Debt action network IRIN UN Humanitarian news service
Council for International Development Alert Net
NZAID Government’s agency for delivering New Zealand’s Official Development Assistance

New Internationalist

Inter Press Service Journalism for global change

Anglican Social Justice Commission

Anglican Missions Board

Mission and Ecumenical (Methodist Church)

Global Missions Office (Presbyterian Church) 

Cluster Munitions Coalition: campaign to ban cluster bombs

Poverty

Millennium Development Goals

Human Development Reports

UNDP UN Development Programme

Supporting Churches

Refugees

Anglican Church of Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia UNRWA UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees
Methodist Church of New Zealand

UNHCR UN Refugee Agency

Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand

Water

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) UN Water
The Salvation Army Ecumenical Water Network
Christian Churches New Zealand  
Uniting Congregations of Aotearoa New Zealand