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  2. Un monde sans pauvreté - Wikipedia

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    End Child Poverty in Canada." The Canadian campaign's organizers argue that "It's time for world leaders, including our Prime Minister, to live up to their commitments to end poverty and hunger , enable every child to attend school, create decent jobs and reverse the spread of HIV / AIDS ."

  3. End Child Poverty coalition - Wikipedia

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    End Child Poverty coalition was set up in 2001 by a group of UK children's charities, social justice groups, faith-groups, trade unions and others concerned about what they considered the unacceptably high levels of child poverty in the UK. It was established as a charity in 2003 with a single goal - to eradicate child poverty in the United ...

  4. Tearfund - Wikipedia

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    Tearfund marked its 50th anniversary in 2018 with an extensive campaign encouraging financial giving, prayer for an end to extreme poverty and further support for its campaigning work. There have also been a number of events around the UK marking the anniversary, including a service in Coventry Cathedral featuring the Archbishop of Canterbury ...

  5. Fact check: The last Labour government narrowly missed ... - AOL

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    According to a 2007 article in the journal Paediatrics & Child Health, the Government missed its 2004/05 target narrowly, cutting child poverty by 23% before housing costs by that date.

  6. Nearly a million more children fell into poverty last year ...

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    The number of children in poverty rose by 979,000 from 2022 to 2023, Census Bureau data shows. The rise in child poverty comes as families still grapple with life without an enhanced child tax credit.

  7. Poverty reduction - Wikipedia

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    Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty. Measures, like those promoted by Henry George in his economics classic Progress and Poverty , are those that raise, or are intended to raise, ways of enabling the poor to ...

  8. Global Call to Action Against Poverty - Wikipedia

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    2009 "Stand Up and Take Action against Poverty" campaign. A total of 173 million people around the world—2.5% of the world population—took part in the fourth Stand Up. This was a new Guinness World Record. Over 3,000 events were held in more than 120 countries in the fourth year of the "Stand Up, Take Action, End Poverty Now!" campaign.

  9. How The World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor

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    The U.S. and other global powers launched the World Bank at the end of World War II to promote development in countries torn by war and poverty. Member countries finance the bank and vote on whether to approve roughly $65 billion in annual loans, grants and other investments.