Leaders are urged to live up to poverty goal

from The Glasgow Evening Times

WORLD leaders have been challenged by a Glasgow MP to live up to their promises to meet their targets to cut world poverty.

Ann McKechin, the MP for Glasgow North, has tabled a Commons motion urging them to live up to pledges made at the Gleneagles summit 20 months ago.

She said: "We are now halfway towards the 2015 Millennium Development targets on poverty but still off-track to reach those goals.
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"It is time for all of us to agree that the world cannot wait to make poverty history."

Ms McKechin's motion urges the Government to note the continued public demand for urgent political action "to end poverty and climate chaos".

She said that the Government, Europe and the G8 had to acknowledge that the world "can't wait to make poverty history".