Action call on poverty.BIRMINGHAM campaigners were joining a global action event today to speak out against poverty. Students at Birmingham University Birmingham University, at Birmingham, England; founded 1900. It has faculties of arts, science, engineering, medicine and dentistry, commerce and social science, law, and education and continuing studies. were pledging their support to Global Call to Action Against Poverty The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing worldwide alliance consisting of national coalitions (or platforms) of campaigns to end poverty. It has become the most significant global anti-poverty platform to date, claiming to have involved some 38 million by signing petitions at their campus. Dr Kumi Naidoo, who chairs GCAP GCAP Global Call to Action Against Poverty GCAP Graduate Cost Analysis Program GCAP Greater Cincinnati Associated Physicians GCAP Generalized Circuit Analysis Program GCAP Global Capabilities , said: "We know the root causes of poverty are man-made and preventable, but the political will is lacking for bold action. Only by citizens taking this cause into their own hands and unrelentingly holding their leaders to account can we change the course of history. "The Global Call to Action Against Poverty is driving this movement from the smallest villages to global financial centres like Birmingham and together we are turning up the heat on politicians to act." |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion