Fighting World Poverty Campaigners Must Maintain Pressure On G8 Leaders
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THE MEETING of G8 leaders at Gleneagles in July puts Scotland at the forefront of a crucial debate about the future of the continent of Africa. When world leaders met in Birmingham in 1998 they were amazed to see 70,000 people linking arms around the city centre, calling for the cancellation of unpayable debt for the world's poorest countries. In a single day, the Jubilee 2000 Campaign, the umbrella group behind that demonstration, created a momentum that now looks unstoppable. The key to its success was its essential simplicity. Its natural successor, the Make Poverty History campaign, hopes that more than 200,000 demonstrators will converge on Edinburgh on July 2, four days before the summit, to send an even more powerful message to G8 leaders.
Yesterday, two disparate groups of people began their respective hopeful journeys towards that day. In London a galaxy of screen and music stars who support the campaign launched an advertisement drawing attention to the plight of child victims of poverty.See the full content of this document
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Fighting World Poverty Campaigners Must Maintain Pressure On G8 Leaders
Each click of their fingers represents another avoidable child death. There were no celebrities among the unprepossessing grou...
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