MID-Worcestershire MP Peter Luff has joined Oxfam's fight to Make Poverty History.
The charity is calling on world leaders to meet the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals, which include halving global poverty by 2015, ensuring primary school education for every child, cutting the number of women who die in childbirth, improving access to clean water and halt and reversing the spread of AIDS/HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. For the past two days world leaders have been meeting in New York for a UN summit where tackling global poverty is one of the issues being discussed.
Mr Luff said: "The Make Poverty History campaign has attracted huge public support in Worcestershire, across the UK and the world for action to tackle poverty.
"Many local people are wearing white bands and keeping pressure on the world leaders to deliver."
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