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Highlights of the October 17 mobilisation
All over the world, individuals will be taking a minute out of their daily routine, and in their homes, offices, shopping centers, gyms, grocery stores, bus stations, and coffee shops, they will stand up for a minute as an individual action against poverty and inequality. Join them today, and Stand Up!
Palestinians stand up against poverty and help break the Guinness World Record!
Nearly 1 million Palestinian adults and children, as part of the Global Campaign Against Poverty, joined more than 42.5 million people around the world on October 17 to take a stand to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
Closing the Human Rights Gap in MDG 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
On this Global Day to Stand up against Poverty” (17 October), we are offering a message and a tool for monitoring our common Millennium Development Goal No. 7. This brief pamphlet explains the background of the MDGs and proposes ways that States, UN agencies and our civil society can use appropriate monitoring indicators make MDG 7 more meaningful and consistent with the simultaneous human rights obligations of State. The Closing the Human Rights Gap in MDG 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability brochure is available at: http://www.hlrn.org/publication_det.php?cat_name=&id=38
Be Counted Now
We need you to STAND UP and SPEAK OUT to make governments honour their commitments on more and better aid, debt cancellation, trade justice, gender equality, public accountability and the Millennium Development Goals. It will not happen without all of us taking a stand.
BUILDING AN ASIAN PEOPLES’ AGENDA ON AID
The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) – Asia invites you to cover a conference on ODA, which aims to review the key trends in ODA flows in Asia and the world, assess the impact of aid across recipient countries and identify the prospects and challenges for both donor and recipient countries.
Health, education, housing get miniscule allocations
Health, education and housing continue to suffer highly inadequate allocations of funds from foreign aid received by the Philippines, this despite the international community’s commitment to prioritize human development components in foreign aid to improve the impact of aid on developing nations.
GCAP representatives debate with IMF and World Bank at the World Social Forum
Officials from the IMF, the World Bank, and the UN, were confronted with some difficult questions as the faced representatives from the GCAP coalition at the World Social Forum in Brazil.
Rights Action Week
Events taking place in Rights Action Week (1-10 December) in support of the Global Call To Action Against Poverty.
“Let’s say no to poverty” in Azerbaijan
Nearly 2000 people attended a festival in Barda, central Azerbaijan, to mark the launch of a national campaign in the country to end poverty.
PMRS Stands Up and Speaks Out on International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
The Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) will mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17 by taking part in a series of activities throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip to highlight the issues of poverty and inequality, as part of the worldwide "Stand Up and Speak Out" campaign.
Verdict in trial of Ethiopian activists expected
WHAT? Verdict in trial of Ethiopian activists expected WHERE? Addis Ababa, Ethiopia WHEN? Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Global Call to Action Against Poverty staff and alliance members offer their salaries and monitor relief efforts post-cyclone
GCAP partners launched “Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Bangladesh ”
The Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods (CSRL) was launched in Bangladesh with the objective of seeing more women and men living in poverty with vulnerable livelihoods in rural areas realize their right to secure sustainable livelihoods. Nearly 70 non-government, community based organizations have already joined the Campaign, supported by OXFAM-GB, and agreed to address and work on agriculture, climate change and trade policy related issues. Most of the campaigners are members of the People’s Forum on MDGs (PFM), the GCAP Alliance in Bangladesh .
Bali Conference: World's largest anti-poverty alliance demands justice for the poor
A global alliance of anti-poverty advocates is sending a message to delegates of the December 3-14 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia that climate change be tackled in favour of the poor who are being hit first and worst by climate change.
Grassroots and CSOs to hold workshops for a People’s Protocol on Climate Change
The same time that dignitaries from over 180 countries are convening inside the fully air-conditioned Bali International Convention Center (BICC) to design the Bali roadmap to climate change, people from the grassroots and civil society are also gathering in a forest conservation area to come up with their very own roadmap towards a stable climate.
Mary Robinson speaks to The Guardian
The popular former president of Ireland, recently appointed one of Nelson Mandela's 13 wise "elders", does sometimes slip into a kind of UN human rights-speak that is opaque to the rest of us. But Robinson also has a down-to-earth passion for helping ordinary families - and she has big ideas about the ways in which the current generation of female heads of state can put a new kind of women's leadership into practice.
Global Day of Action in the Philippines
Around 1,000 people marched through downtown Manila as part of the 2008 World Social Forum Global Day of Action.
OECD Development Co-operation Report 2007 shows uneven donor progress in meeting aid commitments
In general the report portrays a picture of uneven progress. Figures for 2006 show a significant correction in relation to 2005 and overall aid volumes for 2007 are expected to continue diminishing as the recent series of debt cancellations reach to an end. Falls in aid volumes in real terms are especially significant in non-EU countries. Worst performers are the United States (-18.2%), Canada (-9.9%), Japan (-9.1%), Finland (-9%), Switzerland (-7.4%) and Austria (-6.9%). Italy shows a fall of -30.6%, but the report comments that it is mainly due to the timing of its contributions to international organisations. Most of these drops can be explained by distorting effect on aid figures exerted by debt cancellations to Nigeria and Iraq .
Renegotiate EU trade deals, Oxfam urges poor states
Proposed trade deals between Europe and dozens of its former colonies would expose poor nations to cheap industrial imports and slash their customs revenues, British-based charity Oxfam said.
Global Campaign for Education breaks world record for world's biggest ever lesson
7.5 million children, adults, teachers joined politicians in over 100 countries to learn about the importance of everyone having the chance for a quality education