GLOBAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST POVERTY
Oct 18th, 2007 by admin
The issue of poverty has become a global one, such that programmes have been set up to raise awareness of this problem. In 2005, A Global Campaign against Poverty was launched with over one hundred International co-olition around the world. The campaign recently mobilized people in order to raise their voices against poverty. The idea is to pressure government and International organizations to end poverty. The Global Call for Action against Poverty called on millions of people around the world to stand up and communicate their desires to fight poverty and to hold their governments and leaders accountable for promises to end poverty by 2015. Latest UN research shows that 850 million people worldwide go to sleep with an empty stomach. In