One Year on from Gleneagles
One year ago, 36 million people in more than 70 countries united under the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), and demanded that the world's leaders act to end the injustice of global poverty.
At the G8 summit at Gleneagles in Scotland last July, poverty was pushed to the top of the agenda, as a quarter of a million people marched in Edinburgh in the biggest public demonstration on global poverty the UK has seen. Through the MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY campaign, they demanded decisive political action on debt cancellation, trade justice and more and better aid.
The G8 leaders responded with a series of pledges on aid, debt, trade and HIV/AIDS which did not live up to the scale of the challenge set by campaigners but which would still represent significant progress in the fight against poverty if they were implemented in full.
One year on from Gleneagles, and we see only mixed progress in implementing the pledges of 2005.
Read some of the Gleneagles+1 reports that have been released to mark the anniversary:
The view from the summit - Gleneagles G8 one year on Oxfam
The DATA Report 2006 DATA
The Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative: The good, the bad and the ugly Jubilee Debt Campaign
More and Better Aid: Are the G8 promises being delivered? UK Aid Network
Trade Union Statement to the G8 St Petersburg Summit TUC
Small change: An assessment of G8 action on trade justice, debt cancellation, more and better aid, 1 year on from Gleneagles World Development Movement
Four page Debt and Trade Update CAFOD
Universal access by 2010 - the UK Government's role in making it happen Stop AIDS Campaign