Sentences with phrase «global poverty campaigns»

She has played a leadership role on many global poverty campaigns for the past 11 years, including Oxfam International's Make Trade Fair campaign.

That's why tracking poverty in Africa, for example, is critical for the United Nations, which launched a global poverty campaign last year.

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The «STAND UP» event seta national and global record in the Guinness World Records for the largest number of people to stand up for a cause... Lutherans across the U.S. participated in the event organised as part of «ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History», in cooperation with the United Nations» Millennium Campaign.»

He has led the One Campaign, which seeks additional spending to alleviate global poverty, and worked with Bob Geldof to arrange Live 8, the concurrent benefit concerts in all of the countries of the Group of Eight, or G8 (the world's eight largest economies).

By making global poverty a concern of U.S. citizens, the One Campaign makes it a concern of U.S. leaders.

Like that of the NRA, the One Campaign's goal is to communicate to political leaders that there is a large bloc of citizens behind it — in this case, citizens committed to addressing global poverty.

John Dickie, the director of Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, and Sir Harry Burns, the former chief medical officer for Scotland who is now Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Strathclyde, will also be at the campaign launch.

The Global Poverty Project is deliberately seeking to harness the communitarian powers of Britain's religions to drive the campaign.

An attempt to send global poverty up the agenda for the forthcoming general election campaign has got underway in St Paul's Cathedral.

THE global campaign to eradicate poverty picked up fresh support at last week's United Nations World Summit, when leaders of 150 nations pledged their commitment to the UN's Millennium Development Goals.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on theiGlobal Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on thePoverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on theiglobal North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on thepoverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on thepoverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on thepoverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

v. KOSMOS Journal, The Widening Circle After Rio +20: Advancing the Campaign for a Global Citizens Movement, Uchita de Zoysa, http://www.kosmosjournal.org This article was published on October 17th: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty in Global Education Magazine

I first noticed it in 1979 when the United Nations International Year of the Child — a global campaign to end poverty and provide health and human rights to all children — was attacked by a number of groups, including Americans Against Abortion, which called it «an intense propaganda campaign to «liberate» children from their parents.»

Dóchas, the Platform for Development NGOs in Ireland, is determined not to let this opportunity pass at such a crucial moment in global campaign to eradicate poverty.

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It has embarked on a global campaign to promote coal as the solution to energy poverty.

The campaign will benefit one of Christy's favorite charities, CARE, which fights against global poverty.

Then he launched an international campaign to distract public policy makers by understating the potential devastation of climate change, while setting up a false choice between spending money addressing global warming or spending instead on eradicating poverty or AIDS.

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