Make Poverty History Dublin Rally - June 30th 2005
On Thursday 30 June, as leaders of the world's richest countries
prepare
to go to Scotland for the G8 summit, and tens of thousands of
campaigners prepare to rally in Edinburgh, thousands gathered in
Dublin
to send this message to the G8 leaders:
Enough is enough.
We want trade justice, debt cancellation, and more and better aid for
the world's poorest countries.
THE COST: Real and Inhuman
600 million children live in absolute poverty.
Every year more than 10 million children die of hunger and preventable
diseases that's one child every three seconds.
But it doesn't have to be this way. Poverty doesn't occur by chance or
bad luck. Millions of people around the world are trapped in bitter,
unrelenting poverty because of man-made factors: a glaringly unjust
global trade system which favours the most powerful countries and
punishes the poorest; demands from rich countries and global
institutions for vast sums of money to service old debts, even those
incurred by oppressive regimes; insufficient aid which never gets to
where it is most needed.
Trade Debt - Aid
The gap between the world's rich and poor has never been wider.
Malnutrition, AIDS, conflict and illiteracy are a daily reality for
millions. But it isn't chance or bad luck that keeps people trapped in
bitter, unrelenting poverty. It's man-made factors like a glaringly
unjust global trade system, a debt burden so great that it suffocates
any chance of recovery and insufficient and ineffective aid.
Those with Power
Back in 2001 the governments of the eight wealthiest nations on the
planet said that they were going to do something about it - in what
was
seen as a breakthrough, they promised to halve world poverty by 2015.
Four years later the world is failing dismally to reach those targets.
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