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  • Douglas Alexander launches advent calendar

    Douglas Alexander, Desmond Tutu & the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu today launched the Church of England’s 2009 online Advent calendar. The online Advent calendar encourages people to take time out to slow down and consider your lifestyle (such as buying Fairtrade!) with daily challenges and thoughts. The website contains a range of reflections,…

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  • Make 0.7% aid spending UK law

    In 2005, due largely to campaigning by many of us as part of the Make Poverty History campaign, world leaders promised to increase aid spending to 0.7% of their Gross National Income. Labour is tripling our aid budget and is committed to reaching the target by 2013. Now we need to make that promise a…

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  • Hello + please get involved!

    Labour Campaign for International Development is a new group that has just been set up by a few Labour Party activists (including me David Taylor, Co-operative Party Youth NEC, and Tim Shand, PPC for Guildford) with to promote international development policies within the Labour Party & the Government, and encourage people campaigning to end poverty…

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