Today in Berlin Bono and Bob Geldof held a press conference to call upon G8 nations to meet their commitments to double aid to Africa by 2010. So far the G8 countries, including Canada are falling far short. Today, 41% of Africans are living on less than one dollar a day.
A report released [...]

You could have heard a pin drop in a room of several hundred professional fundraisers. As Stephen Lewis, the Ottawa AFP Conference keynote speaker said “The number one issue, bar none that I feel the most strongly about…
“is the presence of gender inequality it is doing such ravishing damage in the world it is [...]

Just over an hour ago about a 1000 people packed the Association of Fundraising Professionals Conference in Ottawa to hear Stephen Lewis share his profound wonderment over the absence of corporate financial support in such an unprecedented time corporate abundance. “in the midst of billion dollar mergers,” Mr. Lewis observed, ” we have never [...]

The whiteband… we are seeing it more and more. Here at the Global Call to Action Against Poverty international meeting in Uruguay over 150 people are wearing a version of the whiteband. I was given a white beaded version from India and a band of seeds made by women in Brazil and the Russian [...]

Make Poverty History (MPH) campaigners are gathered in Uruguay from all over the world. Violence against women specifically and the lack of human rights for women around the world is part of the work of these MPH campaigners. It is clear without stopping this violence and eradicating inequality poverty will continue to flourish. [...]

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty helps to legitimize the work of eradicating poverty say many campaigners gathered in Uruguay. Here today, front line campaigners are planning their next global actions to make political leaders accountable. Seven years ago now the world leaders made promises of aid dollars. by 2015 poverty [...]

Over 150 people from 110 countries will be meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay for four days to shape the next stage of the Make Poverty History global movement. Check it out here in Canada. I will be meeting with campaigners and activists to participate in notching up global efforts to eradicate poverty and inequality. [...]