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G8 summit in Germany 6-8 June 2007

Campaigners gave Tony Blair a good send off on Saturday
The world’s most powerful leaders met in Germany for their annual G8 summit.

These leaders have a lot of work to do in combating global poverty.

In 2007, some 5,000 children die every day from drinking dirty water and more than five million people living with HIV and AIDS still do not have access to medicines. Lives are being lost needlessly.

Click on the links for our responses to the communiqués on development and climate change, and to find out what we were up to in Germany.

A few days before the start of the summit, thousands of you gathered in central London to raise your voices against poverty. Click here for a video report from the day.


G8 tragically close to failure on Africa
Tearfund has given this year's G8 summit a 5 out of 10 - particularly on Africa. This is tragically close to failure. Here is our response to the summit's communiqué on development.Andy Atkins, Tearfund's advocacy director, says, 'These unfulfilled G...
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CLIMATE CHANGE: SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS AT G8
Tearfund says important steps to halt climate change were made at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, following 24 hours of negotiations and months of behind-the-scenes bargaining. But we are disappointed at the failure of all G8 countries to ag...
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THE WORLD CAN'T WAIT photo report
Thank you for raising your voice against poverty!   On Saturday 2 June 2007, several thousand campaigners gathered by the banks of the Thames in central London to send a message to the world's G8 leaders ahead of their meeting in Germany on 6-8 ...
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Daily blog direct from Germany
Tearfund’s Advocacy Director, Andy Atkins, is in Heilegendamm, Germany, this week to lobby officials on important issue like climate change. He's sending back a daily blog direct from Germany. Read them here. Friday 8 June I hear that the beach 20...
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We are Christians passionate about the local church bringing justice and transforming lives - overcoming global poverty.
So our ten-year vision is to see 50 million people released from material and spiritual poverty through a worldwide network of 100,000 local churches.

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