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From all parts of the world, more than 38.7 million people, like these students, stood and spoke out to demand a more urgent political response to the growing crisis of global poverty and inequality. They called on their world leaders to keep their commitments made in the Millennium Development Goals. Credit: GCAP
Oxfam International is a member of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, GCAP, a worldwide alliance committed to forcing world leaders to live up to their promises, and to make a breakthrough on poverty. National coalitions in more than 100 countries together represent millions of people and thousands of organizations including trade unions, community groups, faith groups, charities and more. GCAP is calling for action from the world’s leaders to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality. Every day that world leaders delay significant action on aid, trade and debt, 30,000 people die from extreme poverty.
Around the world, 1.2 billion people struggle to survive on less than a dollar a day. Every week, poverty kills more people than died in the Asian tsunami. Every three seconds, a child dies from a preventable disease.
World leaders must keep their promises on debt, aid and trade and ensure a breakthrough on poverty and inequality. Five years after world leaders signed up to the Millennium Development Goals, the UN reports on progress to halve poverty and hunger, provide education for all, improve health standards, halt the spread of major diseases and slow down environmental degradation.
In order to achieve these goals, Oxfam believes:
- That people must be put at the center of trade negotiations;
- World debt must be cancelled;
- More and better targeted aid must be given poor people;
- And national efforts to eliminate poverty must be done in a democratic, transparent and accountable way.
- Gender equality and women’s rights must be at the heart of eradicating poverty
- Governments must meet and exceed the Millennium Development Goals.
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25 January 2008
International agency Oxfam today welcomed the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon's 'Call to Action' to end world poverty made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, but warned that concrete proposals must emerge at the UN meeting in New York in September this year to turn the rhetoric into reality.
Global White Band Day, 17 October 2007
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Record breaking action: 43.7 million people Stand Up and Speak Out - On 16 and 17 October this year, millions of people will once again wear the white band and ‘Stand Up and Speak Out’ against poverty and inequality, and for achieving and exceeding the Millennium Development Goals. Oxfam International is working as part of the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) to mobilize people all over the world to break this record, and to demand that their governments keep their promises to end extreme poverty and injustice.
17 October 2007
On World Poverty Day millions of Oxfam supporters and allies ‘Stood Up and Spoke Out’ to call for an end to poverty. Meet some of the people who took action around the world.
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