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GCAP-SA renewed membership and coordination

 

OPEN LETTER TO G20 FINANCE MINISTERS MEETING 14 MARCH in LONDON

 

G20 2009 - April 2nd - Finance Ministers Lobby letter (sample)

The G20 Finance Ministers are meeting Saturday 14th March, this lobby letter can be sent prior to their meeting to focus their talks on GCAP demands.

The last days before Stand Up and Take Action against poverty and inequality

This is one of those times when you feel incredibly lucky to be in the right job at the right time. My inbox is bulging with remarkable and inspirational updates from GCAP coalitions and partners as they prepare to Stand Up and Take Action from October 17-19. It currently looks as if more than 1% of the world’s population, 67 million people will take part which would make it surely one of, if not the, biggest mobilisation of people on one issue at one time in history.

Global Campaign for Education advocates for literacy to be prioritised

 

Warm words, little action from G8: GCE

 

SANGOCO Day of Action for Decent work

 

Sign Archbishop Desmond Tutu's letter for G8

This Friday, the finance ministers from the world's eight richest countries will meet to plan the G8 summit. Campaign organisation Avaaz plans to send them an urgent letter on global poverty, signed by key global figures - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson - and, of course, people.

Day of the African child: world’s largest anti-poverty campaign turns up heat on leaders

With just 3 weeks to go until G8 leaders converge on Gleneagles for their annual summit, and a mere 15 days until the first global White Band Day, the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is ratcheting up the pressure on world leaders to honour their promises on debt, trade and aid. To mark the Day of the African Child, GCAP African campaigners will launch a major publicity campaign under the slogan Thumbs Down 2 Poverty.

African campaigners launch major advertising campaign to fight poverty

Across Africa today, the African Day of the Child, anti-poverty campaigners, representing over 100 organisations and coalitions working in over 26 countries in Africa, launched a major publicity campaign to mobilise support for the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP): the biggest anti-poverty campaign in history.

South Africa to host first African anti-poverty concert in Johannesburg on 2 July in concert with Live8

South Africa will host the first in a series of free African anti poverty concerts on Saturday 2 July 2005 at Mary Fitzgerald Square, in Newtown, Johannesburg. This concert will be followed by concerts in Kenya and Ghana during August and September respectively. July 2 will also witness a number of concerts in key G8 capital cities including Philadelphia, London, Rome, Tokyo, Berlin and Paris organised by Live8.

Sensational show sees Mandela’s call for action to the G8

Africa Standing Tall Against Poverty in concert with Live8 saw Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown, Johannesburg filled with thousands of people as a part of a global movement to put pressure on the G8 leaders meeting in Gleneagles on 6 July. Towards the end of the concert, the much loved and respected former President Nelson Mandela graced the stage.

Response of the Global Call to Action against Poverty to the announcement on Innovative Financing for Development

 

Sensational show sees Mandela’s call for action to the G8

Africa Standing Tall Against Poverty in concert with Live8 saw Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown, Johannesburg filled with thousands of people as a part of a global movement to put pressure on the G8 leaders meeting in Gleneagles on 6 July. Towards the end of the concert, the much loved and respected former President Nelson Mandela graced the stage.

GCAP Background Briefing Note

The Global Call to Action against Poverty is the world's largest anti-poverty alliance, whose organizations together represent more than 150 million people globally.

GCAP campaigners around the world put the spotlight on trade injustice on White Band day 3

On 10 December, three days before the opening of WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong, GCAP campaigners across five continents will be mobilizing to demand that the WTO Ministerial delivers trade justice for the world’s poor. A wide array of actions from rallies to peoples’ caravans to public performances will take place, all with the objective of putting a spotlight on trade injustice.

G8 Leaders side-step poverty, pressure on German Presidency to deliver.

The St. Petersburg G8 Summit ended with little progress in the fight against poverty.

MEDIA ADVISORY: Africa Standing Tall Against Poverty in concert with Live8

Nelson Mandela will make an appearance at Africa Standing Tall Against Poverty in concert with Live8, the first of three anti-poverty concerts to be performed in Africa in the historic year of 2005. Mr Mandela’s appearance will form part of the global link from Johannesburg with the other 6 concerts around the world during the early hours of the evening on July 2.

African campaigners launch major advertising campaign to fight poverty

Across Africa today, the African Day of the Child, anti-poverty campaigners, representing over 100 organisations and coalitions working in over 26 countries in Africa, launched a major publicity campaign to mobilise support for the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP): the biggest anti-poverty campaign in history.

Saturday 10 September: millions call on leaders to ‘wake up to poverty’ on White Band day 2

From Asia to Africa, Latin America to Europe, leaders will be ‘woken up’ by GCAP supporters urging them to keep poverty and development at the top of the agenda at the UN Summit.