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15 July 2015

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A great generation: Make Poverty History ten years on

Make Poverty History was an unprecedented popular mobilization on global poverty and it secured unprecedented results. In campaigning terms the numbers are yet to be beaten: a global audience of approximately 3 billion for Live 8, millions of people wearing the campaign’s white band, quarter of a million people marching on Edinburgh and a brand recognition that leapt from zero to 90% in just six months.

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14 July 2015

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Financing the End of Poverty

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)—a set of eight international targets—were established in 2000 at the United Nations Millennium Summit. It took another two years for there to be a conference on how to actually finance them. Now, with the MDGs coming to a close this year, the international community is poised to plot a different course. Global leaders are meeting 13–16 July at the 3rd International Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to develop a financing plan for a new set of priorities—the sustainable development goals—prior to a September meeting to agree upon those proposed targets.

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13 July 2015

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Great ambitions, concrete actions

We are at a turning point. For the first time, we have the real possibility of ending abject poverty and laying the foundations for sustainable prosperity. This is the promise that must drive the ambition of the global community when it gathers in New York in September to agree the Sustainable Development Goals and, later, when it meets in Paris to strike an agreement on climate change at COP21.

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10 July 2015

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Music against Child Labour

Simon Steyne from the International Labour Organization talks to us about the Music against Child Labour Initiative, which raises awareness about child labour through the medium of music.

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09 July 2015

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Bangladeshi Migrants Risk High Seas and Smugglers to Escape Poverty

Though he is only 16 years old, Mohammad Yasin has been through hell and back. He recently survived a hazardous journey by sea, crammed into the cargo-hold of a rudimentary boat along with 115 others.

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08 July 2015

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Brazil: Congress plays ‘House of Cards’ with the lives of marginalized teenagers

On Wednesday, a packed House of Representatives in Brasilia vociferously debated and voted against lowering the age at which a child can be tried as an adult and be sent to an adult jail – an appalling prospect that violates international law and standards.

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07 July 2015

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Yemen: Women get on their bikes for their rights

Amidst bombings and shortages in fuel, food and vital supplies, a group of Yemeni women came together for an unconventional demonstration against the war... and the lack of women’s rights.

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