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Project:
Make Poverty History TIG

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Title: Make Poverty History TIG
Location: Global
Status: Completed
Timeline: Ongoing
Categories: Poverty, Sustainable Development, Poverty, Environment, International Aggreements

Description:
On 1 January 2005, the MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY mobilisation was formally launched. This broad coalition of NGOs, trade unions, faith groups, campaigning organisations, student groups and celebrities have come together to demand that rich countries increase aid and make it work better for poor people, cancel unpayable poor country debts, and change the rules of world trade so that they favour the interests of the poor. MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY is...

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Oct 7th, 2008 - 07:03:56 | Owulezi
Amidst the great economic turmoil last week, the UN Summit in New York produced some notable outcomes for the world’s poorest people. We had ONE staff on the ground delivering our petition—with... (read more)

Jul 1st, 2008 - 14:55:36 | Owulezi
Hello and thanks for your interest in volunteering for ONE: The upcoming election creates an amazing opportunity for ONE members to take action with ONE Vote 08, our campaign to make global... (read more)

Jun 2nd, 2005 - 19:33:30 | Cam

Discussion on Trade & Poverty

To follow up the IYPF's May 2005 Newsletter feature on fair trade, members of the IYPF network and anyone interested are been invited to join our Poverty... (read more)

May 31st, 2005 - 17:48:31 | Fi McKenzie
Hi everyone! Just a quick note to say that there'll be lots starting to happen on this at the end of this week so keep an eye out! Looking forward to the progress we can make together!!! Fiona (read more)

Apr 13th, 2005 - 04:14:46 | Fi McKenzie
Good morning everybody! First progress report/action update: We have eight people involved, which is truely fabulous but I'm sure there are thousands involved in TIG who would like to be... (read more)

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Discussions  Discussions
Hosting house party tomorrow 15th oct.2006
plato123 | 04:49 AM

Make poverty fund
osduy | 04:25 AM

Carricature Exhibition of MDGs
some1onearth | 01:22 AM

Impulse the private sector action
Waleed | 07:00 AM

Spreading the word
Fi | 05:19 AM

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Who Is Involved?  Who Is Involved?
Individuals:
Administrator Fiona McKenzie (United Kingdom)
Leader ()
- Owulezi (Nigeria)
- Saindique (Canada)
- jose ohis. izeg (Nigeria)
- Ikahota (Nigeria)
- JennySunshine (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
- Ekpon Theophilus (Nigeria)
- Tetteh Kofi Hadjor (Canada)
- ()
- ()
- ilyes (Canada)

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Documents  Documents
Document Youth & the MDGs: Challenges & Opportunities for Implementation

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