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July 2005


As 2.5 million people in Niger struggle to survive in the face of acute food shortages leading UK charities have announced today that they are joining forces to appeal to the public for help.  The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Niger Crisis Appe...
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The millions of people who campaigned for action on poverty at the G8 summit – and who have won some gains at Gleneagles - must now intensify pressure on world leaders for faster and deeper progress in the push to make poverty history, says Christian...
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Christian relief and development agency Tearfund says the G8 summit in Gleneagles has failed the poor by not committing to meaningful measures to protect people suffering the effects of climate change. Tearfund warns that any progress made on Africa...
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Watch video footage of the satellite link-up - click here. Chancellor Gordon Brown today told Elinata Kasanga, a subsistence farmer in Zambia, that governments must take action ‘at Gleneagles and beyond’ to end the scourge of poverty. Speaking with...
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Hundreds of Tearfund supporters were among the 225,000 people who descended on Edinburgh for the peaceful Make Poverty History rally on Saturday with one purpose in mind: to lobby the world’s leaders before this week’s G8 summit. Christians from...
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