White band makes comeback for global month of action
-27/09/06
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White band makes comeback for global month of action
-27/09/06
Campaigners against poverty have launched a global month of action, reintroducing the symbol of the White Band used in last year’s MakePovertyHistory campaign.
In the UK, eight million people wore a white band, more than half a million people sent a white band email to Tony Blair, and around the country local groups and activists wrapped buildings in giant white bands or formed human white bands.
A new Global Month of Action will see millions of people in over a hundred countries unite again under the banner of the white band, as they stand up against poverty and renew the call for trade justice, debt cancellation and more and better aid.
The Month culminates on 17 October, with the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, in a Global White Band Day.
Today is International Stop EPAs Day (27 September) which marks the anniversary of the launch of negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) ñ free trade deals between the European Union (EU) and its former colonies. As talks now enter a critical phase, campaigning is gearing up across Europe and the 75 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries affected.
Together with other European countries, the UK is part of this push to have some of the poorest nations on the planet sign up to grossly unfair trade deals, say campaigners. Warnings have been issued to the UK government that many of the poorest countries in the world will face deeper poverty and inequality unless it takes urgent action to stop the EU pushing these unfair trade deals.
The Trade Justice Movement is calling on the UK government to use its full influence to stop unfair deals going ahead, to listen to the serious concerns of poor countries and work with those countries to develop new deals that will help deliver trade justice. New reports this week by Oxfam and Friends of the Earth / ActionAid, amongst others, highlight the danger of EPAs reversing progress to make poverty history for the poorest nations.
In the UK both catholic aid agency Cafod and evangelical agency Tearfund have issued similar warnings.
White band makes comeback for global month of action
-27/09/06
Campaigners against poverty have launched a global month of action, reintroducing the symbol of the White Band used in last year’s MakePovertyHistory campaign.
In the UK, eight million people wore a white band, more than half a million people sent a white band email to Tony Blair, and around the country local groups and activists wrapped buildings in giant white bands or formed human white bands.
A new Global Month of Action will see millions of people in over a hundred countries unite again under the banner of the white band, as they stand up against poverty and renew the call for trade justice, debt cancellation and more and better aid.
The Month culminates on 17 October, with the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, in a Global White Band Day.
Today is International Stop EPAs Day (27 September) which marks the anniversary of the launch of negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) ñ free trade deals between the European Union (EU) and its former colonies. As talks now enter a critical phase, campaigning is gearing up across Europe and the 75 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries affected.
Together with other European countries, the UK is part of this push to have some of the poorest nations on the planet sign up to grossly unfair trade deals, say campaigners. Warnings have been issued to the UK government that many of the poorest countries in the world will face deeper poverty and inequality unless it takes urgent action to stop the EU pushing these unfair trade deals.
The Trade Justice Movement is calling on the UK government to use its full influence to stop unfair deals going ahead, to listen to the serious concerns of poor countries and work with those countries to develop new deals that will help deliver trade justice. New reports this week by Oxfam and Friends of the Earth / ActionAid, amongst others, highlight the danger of EPAs reversing progress to make poverty history for the poorest nations.
In the UK both catholic aid agency Cafod and evangelical agency Tearfund have issued similar warnings.