Month: January 2013
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Ivan Lewis MP: Labour’s Post-2015 Vision
A radical and progressive post 2015 framework will require global civil society to galvanise public opinion across the world. As we saw with the historic Make Poverty History campaign it is only when you have a coming together of massive public commitment and pressure together with political will that radical change becomes possible. And now…
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The IF campaign launch
Yesterday saw the launch of the IF campaign to end global hunger. The campaign has been launched by a coalition of 100s of NGOs and faith groups and is the largest campaign of its kind since Make Poverty History in 2005. Alongside targeting global poverty directly, the IF campaign focuses on the need to target…
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Ivan Lewis MP on the new charity campaign on hunger
In response to today’s launch of the NGOs joint campaign on hunger – IF – Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Ivan Lewis MP said: It is beyond belief or justification that in the twenty-first century one billion people go to bed hungry every night. That’s why Labour in government trebled international aid to…
Labour Campaign for International Development 