Party leaders are expected to make Sunday April 18, this election campaign’s \u2018World Poverty Day’ by setting out their parties’ plans to help the world’s poorest people.<\/p>\n
Barbara Stocking, Oxfam Chief Executive, said: “In the understandable desire to focus on challenges facing us here in the UK, it is vitally important poor people around the world do not become the forgotten faces of this election.<\/p>\n
“Every year, millions of children around the world die unnecessarily and 1.4 billion people – almost triple the entire population of the European Union – live on less than 75p-a-day.<\/p>\n
“Britain has been playing a leading role in tackling these problems and I am delighted that all parties are commmited to meeting the UK’s aid promises. It is vital that whichever party wins the next election ensures that Britain continues to lead the world in the face of the fresh challenges posed by the economic crisis and climate change.<\/p>\n
“A Robin Hood Tax on banks’ financial transactions would raise the hundreds of billions of pounds needed to tackle these problems without hurting ordinary people.”<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Barbara Stocking is available for interview to arrange or for further information:<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Lucy Brinicombe: 07786 110054<\/p>\n Jon Slater: 07876 476403<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Party leaders are expected to make Sunday April 18, this election campaign’s \u2018World Poverty Day’ by setting out their parties’ plans to help the world’s poorest people. Barbara Stocking, Oxfam Chief Executive, said: “In the understandable desire to focus on challenges facing us here in the UK, it is vitally important poor people around the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}