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Spain
National Website: pobrezacero.org
National Coalition
Spain does have a national platform that supports the Global Call to Action against Poverty under the name "Zero Poverty"
For more information, please contact CONGDE (Coordinadora de ONG para el Desarrollo) – pobrezacero@pobrezacero.org
Pablo Martínez Onses Email: sensibilizacion@congde.org Teléfono: (34) 91 5210955
Also see: rebelatecontralapobreza.org
2007 events
e-Action
12/09/07 - Spanish "Pobreza Cero" e-action: Poverty is a lack of education! Tell everyone!
07-07-07 events
June 27th- Press conferences Madrid & Valencia to launch campaign's activities on the MDG mid-way point and climate change
July 1st – Valencia Linked to the end of the America's Cup yachting race in Valencia Event on beach - inviting people to come to beach to write words about MDGs and Pobreza Cero campaign in the sand so it can be read from a helicopter and broadcast.
Coordinated by UNMC and the PLATAFORMA VALENCIANA CONTRA LA POBREZA
July 7th – Madrid 18:00 Spanish Anti Poverty Alliance will host a debate on the MDGs "8 barriers to achieving the MDGs".
Moderated by a journalist from Spanish nations TV TVE, th panel will include Flora Trtistan from Peru, Dot Keet from the Africa Trade network, Carmen Jerez from the Conferdeation of Indigenous people of Ecuador and Carlos Berzosa , rector of the Complutense University in madrid.
20:00 "Eco-friendly concert" being organised in city centre square with support from the environmental movement- Ecologists in Action. Using solar panels to generate energy, the concert aims to raise awareness amng the Spanish public of how the current interlinked patterns of energy use and planetary degredation are affecting lives. Performances from: Red House, Los Pasajeros, Mara Oberon, El Quinto Parpadeo.
Contact: Portal Touza, , Pobreza Cero, ptouza@pobrezacero.org
Tlfno: + 34 91 521 09 55
2005 events
WHITE BAND DAY II - Wake-Up to Poverty! on Saturday 10th. September
Activists and supporters of the “Pobreza Cero” campaign gathered with alarm clocks outside the Ministry if Foreign Affairs on September 8th to wake up their Government to poverty. The giant alarm clock, symbolic of this wake up call, was marked with the number 8 for the 8 Millennium Development Goals, and surrounded by placards to remind everyone of these vital goals.
The spokesman of the Spanish Assembly Against Poverty and President of the Coordinator of CONGDE, presented the demands of the Spanish campaign to the Secretary of State of Cooperation, Leire Pajín. Ms. Pajin also significantly joined 10 EU Development Ministers at a GCAP event in Brussels in May, where she signed a white band to demonstrate her commitment to reaching the 0.7 aid target that Governments promised more than 30 years ago. All eyes are on the Spanish delegation now to see whether they live up to their promises.
Photo gallery of the first White Band day – July 2005
Manifesto
There are more than 400 NGO's that form part of CONGDE. These along with more than 100 other organisations that represent civil society have come together to take part in the "Global call for Action Against Poverty" in the year 2005.
The existence of poverty and inequlaity that persists in todays world cannot be justified. Despite the efforts of recent decades, the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen. There are 3,000 million people that lack a dignified life due poverty. Hunger, AIDS, illiteracy, discrimination against woman and children, natural degradation, unequal access to technology, mass displacement caused by war and migration caused by unequal distribution of wealth are all syptoms of the same problem - the injustice that the majority of the worlds population faces.
Sustanable development is under seriuos threat by irresponsible consumption and explotiation of natural resources.
The formation of political and economical activities help create poverty and inequality. International trade and finance only supports the wealthiest economies whilst creating unfair third world debts.
In order to achieve effective and sustainable international development, global democracy and participation must take place.
The recent economic boom has not guaranteed better human rights or better living conditions for any race, gender or culture in any of the world’s regions. In fact, it has increased inequality and injustice to unprecedented levels. The road to peace involves fighting poverty and the lack of equality.
The battle against poverty and it’s many forms, signifies fighting against exclusion and for the protection of economic, social and cultural rights, which will result in greater job security, better health care, education and empowerment. It’s the moral obligation of society as a whole and one that cannot be delayed any longer.
For all of these requisitions to be carried out and for the eradication of poverty and hunger to be made possible, all governments and states that signed the UN Millennium Declaration in 2000, to carry out their promises and objectives.
We ask that:
- There is more official aid where countries give the promised 0.7% of GDP.
- Better aid where the commercial interests of the poorest countries are prioritised and adhere to the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s).
- There is greater coherence between all governments.
- That the richer countries, the IMF and World Bank cancel third world debt.
- The laws of international trade are changed. At present they favour richer countries and their businesses that dictate how they should develop.
- Remove subsidiaries that currently allow richer countries to export products below their cost of production, which damages rural communities in poor countries.
- The protection of public services against liberalisation and privatisation, which will improve access to food, clean water and medical supplies.
There is more equal access to technology for the poorer countries.
