GCAP United Kingdom
National Campaign: United Kingdom GCAP platform
The United Kingdom GCAP platform works through the established networks that form the heart of collective campaigning against global poverty in the UK. These include the issue coalitions such as the Trade Justice Movement, the Jubilee Debt Campaign, the UK Aid Network and the Stop AIDS Coalition as well as BOND and its 300+ member NGOs in the UK, and the Trade Union Congress (TUC). Together these networks work together to connect UK activity and representation with the Global Call to Action against Poverty in association with the leading poverty campaigning organisations
GCAP UK Representative
Glen Tarman, BOND
EVENTS FOR 2009
On the weekend of 16-18 October 2009, the anti-poverty movement will organise a national local lobby of Members of Parliament and Parliamentary candidates, calling for the inclusion of the demands in the BOND Manifesto in to political parties' policies, as others join with people across the world by Standing Up Against Poverty.
The end of the weekend will mark 20 days to the G20 finance minister's meeting in St Andrews and 50 days to the Copenhagen climate summit in December. As 16-18 October will also be MPs' first weekend back in their constituencies after the Summer recess, there has never been a more important time for politicians to feel the heat.
G20 Summit protesters in London (Endika Ramos)
GCAP UK content
- ¡Levántate y Actúa en acción!
- Este año, la campaña Levántate y Actúa Contra la Pobreza y la Desigualdad movilizó la increíble cantidad de 173.045.325 millones de personas durante más de 3.000 eventos en más de 120 países. Además del aumento en los números y de batir un nuevo Récord Guinness mundial con la movilización más grande de personas que registra la historia, Levántate 2009 se caracterizó por mensajes políticos más fuertes que otros años, a medida que se acerca el vencimiento de plazos del año 2015 para cumplir con los ODM y los efectos devastadores combinados de las crisis -climática, financiera, alimentaria y de género- han comenzado a manifestarse en el aumento de la pobreza y la desigualdad.
- Rt Revd Paul Williams, Bishop of Kensington led his churches in a Stand Up Against Poverty in the UK
- The Rt Revd Paul Williams, Bishop of Kensington led his churches in a Stand Up Against Poverty at the Area Conference held at St Philip’s Church, Earls Court, on Sat 17 October (International Day for the Eradication of Poverty). He also encouraged them to do a Stand Up in their churches on Sunday, especially as part of a Micah Sunday service. 235 delegates were present.
- GCAP UK targets the G20 meetings
- GCAP UK is calling on the G20 to take action to reform the economic system
- 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.
- BOND and InterAction send joint letter to President Obama and Gordon Brown
- BOND and InterAction, the UK and USA platforms for NGOs respectively, sent a letter to Gordon Brown and Barack Obama ahead of their meeting on 3 March 2009 urging them to consider four key issues to address the deepening global economic crisis in support of international social justice.
- 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.
- GCAP campaigners hand over petitions to G8 delegates
- Yesterday GCAP campaigners in Canada, Germany, Italy, Russia and the UK handed over the Tanabata petitions to the G8 delegations.
- GCAP United Kingdom - Events 2007
- ActionAid releases report on effective aid
- Activists demand immediate release of Ethiopian human rights defenders
- GCAP UNITES THOUSANDS OF GLOBAL ACTIVISTS
- 23.5 million people Stand Up Against Poverty
- Press Invite: International launch of Poverty Requiem
- Ministers must not stall on EU aid increase
- Ministers must not stall on EU aid increase
- Live8 generation calls for action at the G8
- Live8 concerts will take place just a few days before the crucial G8 summit in Scotland, and will challenge leaders of the world's 8 richest nations to honour their commitments on poverty. On the first white band day, 1 July 2005, one day before Live8, millions of people around the world are expected to wear a white band as a symbol of their demands to world leaders.
- Celebrities turn up the heat on G8 leaders
- In the week in which anti-poverty campaigners Live8 and ahead of next week’s crucial G8 Finance Ministers meeting in London, a series of open letters from global celebrities to the G8 Finance Ministers are being published in some of the most influential newspapers in the world, calling for decisive action by world leaders to tackle poverty once and for all.
- Media Alert: Claudia Schiffer calls on G8 finance ministers to deliver
- On Thursday, 9 June, dedicated GCAP supporter Claudia Schiffer will meet with leading representatives of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty including the UK’s Make Poverty History coalition, America’s One campaign and Germany’s Your Voice Against Poverty. Kumi Naidoo, Chair of the GCAP will lead the discussions.
- Claudia Schiffer joins 150 million campaigners around the world to say to G8 Finance Ministers "we'll be watching you"
- Claudia Schiffer joined representatives of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty on Thursday to warn G8 Ministers "we'll be watching you" ahead of this week's Finance Ministers' meeting in London. They are demanding the G8 Ministers fulfil their promises to combat poverty by delivering on trade justice, debt cancellation and more and better aid.
- The Global Call to Action against Poverty marks its first global White Band Day mobilization on Friday 1st July
- Some of the world’s most famous landmarks will be adorned with huge white bands on 1st July, as part of a curtain-raiser to a week of global action during which campaigners and the public in 72 countries will use their voices to call for an end to global poverty.
