|
| |
|
Avaaz
.org
"voice" or "song" in several languages |
 Avaaz.org is an online community for global citizens to take action on urgent
global issues, from climate change to global poverty to the crisis in the Middle
East. Our mission is to
ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decisions.
We use the latest technology to empower people to directly contact key global
decision-makers, corporations, and the media when there is an urgent opportunity
to make a difference. Avaaz.org was co-founded by MoveOn.org Civic Action and
Res Publica. |
|
This Friday, the finance ministers
from the world's eight richest countries will meet to plan the G8 summit.
That morning, we will send them an urgent letter on global poverty, signed
by key global figures: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson--and, we hope,
you.
Our message: keep your promise to provide 0.7% of national income in
effective aid to relieve extreme poverty. Millions of lives are at stake.
The more people sign the letter, the more powerful our demand becomes. Click
here to sign:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/g8_poverty_letter |
|
This Friday, in a letter to the G8
finance ministers, we're calling on rich countries to keep their promises of
aid to the world's poor. Click here to join Desmond Tutu in signing the
letter:
|
Join
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
to sign letter to G8 summit.who promised effective aid to relieve extreme
poverty - you can help
The statistics of global poverty are shocking.
Each day, 20,000 children die preventable deaths in poor countries. That's why
the broken promises of rich countries are so infuriating.
The world's rich countries have pledged 0.7% of their national income to
development aid. But these promises have not been kept. In fact, outrageously,
the G8 countries gave less in 2006 than in 2005.
At the same time, the last few years have seen an unprecedented groundswell
against global poverty--which has led to new promises and, in some countries,
real change. These fights can be won. That's why we are working with our friends
at the Global Call to Action Against Poverty to assemble citizens and
celebrities behind a single call--for world leaders to keep their word on global
poverty.
Here's an excerpt from the letter:
Together you represent the world's economic powerhouses. We write to ask
that you also strive to represent the millions of people whose lives are
blighted by extreme poverty.
Aid is not a panacea. But Marshall Plan aid from the US kick-started the
rebuilding of a Europe shattered by war and delivered real benefits to the US in
terms of new markets for its goods. Aid to East Asia helped catalyse the
economic miracles that have lifted millions of people out of poverty. Today many
African governments are using aid to underwrite growth and provide essential
schools, health services and water supplies for their people. The poorest
countries in the world need you to honour these aid pledges if they are to meet
the Millennium Development Goals and end poverty. Please seize that chance
today.
The letter will be delivered Friday with a
full-page ad in the Financial Times, just in time for the G8 finance minister's
meeting. Click here to join Desmond Tutu by signing on:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/g8_poverty_letter
With hope
Ricken, David, Iain, Lee-Sean, Galit, Graziela, and the whole AVAAZ team
Go to
"World News with local impact"
MAIN MENU
|
