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CAFOD's Maria Elena Arana hands in campaigners' wishes for a better world at 10 Downing Street before 2008's G8 meeting. [Crispin Hughes, Oxfam] A worldwide 'wish petition' signed by 60,000 people in the UK, including CAFOD supporters, was handed in to Downing Street on 3 July for the attention of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The wishes were collected part of a Global Call to Action Against Poverty campaign that has attracted more than half a million supporters across the globe. The wishes call on the G8 leaders, meeting in Japan from 7-9 July, to take collective action to help overcome poverty. Like many wishes that we all make every day, these wishes require determined action to come true. In 2005 the G8 promised to increase annual aid provision by $50 billion by 2010; yet on current trends they will miss their own target... [read full story]
