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Millennium Development Goals

7 Apr 2013

Churches call for Millennium Development Goals action

Religious leaders from across the G8 countries have called on heads of government to follow the UK in fulfilling existing commitments to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on aid.
5 Apr 2013

UK can lead G8 on global poverty, say religious leaders

Religious leaders from G8 countries have called on heads of government to follow the UK in fulfilling existing commitments to spend 0.7% of national income on aid.
5 Mar 2013

Christian Aid welcomes Greening speech on women's empowerment

Chridtian Aid has welcomed a speech on women's empowerment given by the Secretary of State for International Development, Justine Greening.
6 Nov 2012

Ending poverty requires listening to the poor, Progressio tells action panel

Progressio has given direct feedback from its partners around the world to members of the High Level Panel set up to set anti-poverty action goals.
6 Nov 2012

Prime Minister challenged over disabled people and development

UK-based disability charities have called on Prime Minister David Cameron to put disabled people at the heart of international development plans.
2 Apr 2012

0.7 per cent ODA: 45 years old and 40 years late

Last week a House of Commons enquiry committee called on the government to abandon plans to legislate 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI) for official development assistance (ODA).
9 Nov 2011

Huge potential for renewable energy across sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa has massive potential to generate clean energy that could help lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, a new report says.
18 Feb 2011

Government challenged on debt and the Millennium Development Goals

Jubilee Debt Campaign has joined with 27 other British organisations to analyse the outcomes of the 2010 summit on realising the Millenium Development Goals.
11 Oct 2010

Churches mark 10.10.10 with renewal of commitment on global poverty

From Carlisle to Penzance thousands of Christians in the UK joined an estimated 60 million people across the world to stand up for the poor on 10.10.10.
27 Sep 2010

Mixed reception for UN anti-poverty action review

There have been mixed reactions to the New York summit evaluating the UN Millennium Development Goals, set out a decade ago to reduce global poverty.

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