SUMMIT LEAVES LITTLE SPACE FOR VOICES OF PEOPLE LIVING IN
POVERTY Poverty Hearings Press conference, Tuesday 23 September
2008 in the Tillman Chapel, UN , 777 United Nations Plaza,
Tuesday 23 September: As world leaders prepare for this week’s
UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals, people living in
poverty and activists are gathering on the steps of the UN
Headquarters, demanding to be involved in the decision-making
that will impact their daily lives. The Global Call to Action
against Poverty, the world’s largest civil society alliance, is
calling for a fundamental re-think of the international response
to poverty. With the financial markets in meltdown, and soaring
food prices hitting impoverished people the hardest, maintaining
the status quo is no longer an option. Overcoming poverty will
not be possible without challenging the current model of
globalisation and development, which too often puts profits
before human rights, security and welfare. “What could have been
a real dialogue with civil soc