The gap between the world's rich and poor has never
been wider. Malnutrition, AIDS, conflict and illiteracy
are a daily reality for millions. But it isn't chance or
bad luck that keeps people trapped in bitter, unrelenting
poverty. It's man-made factors like a glaringly unjust global
trade system, a debt burden so great that it suffocates any
chance of recovery and insufficient and ineffective aid.
 TRADEJUSTICE
DROPTHEDEBT
MORE&BETTERAID
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back in 2001 the governments of the eight wealthiest nations
on the planet said that they were going to do something about
it - in what was seen as a breakthrough, they promised to
halve world poverty by 2015.
Four years later the world is failing dismally
to reach those targets.
This year offers a truly exceptional set of opportunities
for the UK to take a lead internationally and say that enough
is enough.
With the UK hosting the G8 gathering of powerful
world leaders in July as well as holding the presidency of
the European Union (EU) for the second half of the year, our
Government and particularly Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, will
be influential players on the world stage - we must make sure
they play their part.
They have the power and we can make
them use it.
The Make Poverty History coalition and Penguin have joined
together in the fight against world poverty to create a brilliantly
simple, but life saving book. More...
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