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International Action Against Child Poverty : Meeting the 2015 Targets

On the 26th February the Chancellor and Clare Short hosted a major international conference on child poverty in London.

Key documents from the conference are set out below.

Chancellor’s speech

Press Notice

Conference Conclusions

Italian Finance Minister Visco’s speech

Horst Kohler’s speech

Kofi Annan’s remarks

DfID UK Approach Paper

World Bank paper for the conference PDF download. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here to download.

NGO/Faith paper ‘A Six Point Plan for Eliminating Child Poverty’ PDF download. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here to download.

A Government report on “Forging a New Commitment : Tackling the Diseases of Poverty’ by DfID, HM Treasury and the PIU (Performance and Innovation Unit)

Other documents were distributed by UNDP and UNICEF which can be found on their respective websites :

www.unicef.org for the State of the World’s Children, Poverty Reduction Begins with Children and First Call for Children

www.undp.org for the UNDP sponsored report into Tanzania.

www.paris21.org/betterworld (for A Better World For All)

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