Tag: families in action

Colombia ‘far behind’ poverty reduction target

Colombia is “far” from attaining the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the number of people who live on less than $1.25 a day by 2015, Portafolio reports. Colombia’s Director of Planning...

‘FARC’ kill head of govt body Families in Action

The leader of the government welfare initiative Familias en Accion (Families in Action) is killed by gunmen thought to belong to the FARC. Zoraida Acevedo Vargas was shot in front of her husband and four daughters at her home on...

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