FRANCAISComité français pour la solidarité internationale - History
1980-1989
-1984, France: a miner, a trade unionist of CFTC before joining the CFDT, a member of the Socialist Party since 1971 and a former representative of the Worker’s Catholic Action (ACO), Menotti Bottazzi quits CCFD and becomes the secretary general of CFCF.
-December 1985, Ethiopia: contrary to MSF, which is expelled from the country, CFCF does not inform against the junta of colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, who deports the population toward the South in order to deprive the guerrillas of people’s support in the North. During the 1984 famine, the Committee participated to a collective body, Hope-Ethiopia, that chartered a boat of food and medicine along with FDH, CIMADE, CCFD, Emmaüs International, Solidarités Internationales, Terre des Hommes and Peuples Solidaires.
-1986, France: to increase private donations instead of resorting to institutional backers, CFCF launches a costly advertisement campaign which raises less money than expected.
