"Make Poverty History" Campaign Celebrates a Year of Progress |
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The "Make Poverty History" Campaign is looking back at 2005 as a year where important steps forward in the fight against poverty were taken, and says that:
The incredible level of public commitment and face-to-face lobbying was undoubtedly influential in ensuring global poverty was placed higher on the national and global agenda than ever before.
Important progress was made through the G8 in securing promises of extra financial resources for developing countries in the form of extra aid and the proposed deeper debt cancellation for some poor countries. In addition, several rich countries promised to meet more ambitious aid targets further in the future. Importantly, three crucial international principles were established at key international forums:
The international acceptance of the principle of 100% multilateral debt cancellation.
The undertaking at the G8 summit that developing countries have the right to “decide, plan and sequence their economic policies to fit with their own development strategies.”
Support for as close as possible to universal access to treatment for HIV and AIDS for all who need it by 2010.
These principles provide important levers for campaigning in the future, though they do not yet live up to the scale of the challenge set by campaigners.
More to be found at
www.makepovertyhistory.org/theyearof/index.shtml
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page last updated on 23.12.2005
