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Aid cuts leave Government's credibility in tatters 5 Aug 2013 | 10:32 am
Friday 2nd August 2013 goes down as a dark day in Australian history. A third round of cuts to the aid budget since 2012 now makes it almost inconceivable that the Government will meet its commitment ...
Calling all Global Citizens 17 Jul 2013 | 04:21 am
This week we announced that Stevie Wonder, Kings of Leon, Alicia Keys and John Mayer will headline the second annual Global Citizen Festival, September 28, on the Great Lawn of Central Park in New Yor...
The Beginning of the End of Polio 24 Jun 2013 | 02:48 am
2013 presents a truly momentous opportunity in the fight against extreme poverty. With mass public awareness behind issues of global hunger through the Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign; the UK's c...
The G8 and IF: Progress for the world's poor 21 Jun 2013 | 05:59 am
Well what a 10 days that was in the fight against extreme poverty. 13 days ago the Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign of 200 charities, including the Global Poverty Project, set out an ambitious ag...
Reflections On the Big IF Belfast 19 Jun 2013 | 02:42 am
Several days ahead of the G8 summit myself and friends gathered in Botanic Gardens, Belfast as part of theBig IF campaign. The campaign has been backed by many different NGO’s to give strength to the ...
Tens of thousands descend on Hyde Park for Big IF 12 Jun 2013 | 03:12 am
It is a sorry state of affairs that even though there is enough food to feed everyone in the world, 1 in 8 continue to go to sleep hungry every night. It is equally heartbreaking that 3 million childr...
World inches closer to eradicating polio 29 May 2013 | 09:43 pm
For Lauren O'Connor, 27, The End of Polio's Global Communications Coordinator, campaigning for the eradication of polio has quickly become a part of who she is. "I went from thinking that polio was al...
Australian budget: the verdict on aid 15 May 2013 | 04:20 pm
Our Aid Uncut campaign set the Government 3 tests for this year’s federal budget. How have they fared? 1: Keep Australia on track to spend 0.5% of national income on foreign aid by 2016-17. Wayne Swa...
Reflecting on our success 2 May 2013 | 02:05 am
We all want to see the end of extreme poverty. But how do you tackle it? As our colleague d’Arcy likes to say, you can tackle this massive issue the same way you eat an elephant: one bite at a time. ...
Why aid matters now 30 Apr 2013 | 12:16 pm
You might have already heard about the good news on global poverty this week. If you haven’t – the number of people living in poverty has fallen by about 200 million in 5 years. This didn’t happen by...
