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Asia and the Pacific face a severe crisis in which nearly 68% of its citizens live in extreme poverty, without enough to eat or access to basic services, such as safe water, education and healthcare.

The global financial, food and climate crises and violent conflict have increased disparities and particularly impacted children, marginalised communities and women. However there has been significant progress across the region on several of the Millennium Development Goals, including providing access to primary school for all children, reducing gender disparities in education and stemming the spread of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.

GCAP's national coalitions in Asia are campaigning every day to create The World We Want, a world free from poverty and inequality.

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GCAP Urges India To Lead G20 Action On Hunger
06/20/2011 - 15:03 | admin | 0comments

"India must take lead to ensure the G20 acts decisively to end hunger and deprivation"
GCAP and its partners in India have come together to produce a letter addressed to the G20 Agriculture Minister of India in the wake of the G20 Agriculture Ministers' Meeting to be held in Paris this week. A portion of the letter can be seen below along with the full version available for download.

Dear Mr. Sharad Pawar,

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Aid Groups Urge Japan Not to Cut ODA Budget Following March Disaster
06/06/2011 - 09:19 | admin | 0comments

TOKYO - Aid groups urged Japan on Wednesday not to cut its official development assistance budget, following Tokyo’s decision to slash around 10 percent of foreign aid allocations for fiscal 2011 from the initial plan to raise funds for reconstruction after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Representatives of the aid groups, who will attend a conference in Tokyo from Thursday on implementing the U.N. Millennium Development Goals on poverty reduction, called on Japan to maintain its efforts to help poor nations while pursuing its own recovery.

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GCAP Pakistan Demands Budget for MDGs
06/02/2011 - 17:54 | admin | 0comments

“We Demand Budget for MDGs”

GCAP Pakistan Holds Pre-budget Seminar in Islamabad

Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) Pakistan, Awaz Foundation Pakistan and

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GCAP Calls on Japan Not to Make Further ODA Cuts
06/01/2011 - 07:57 | admin | 0comments

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Gender Issues Absent from the LDC Agenda
05/16/2011 - 14:20 | admin | 0comments

On 8th May 2011, GCAP Ambassador, Adelaide Sosseh, presented, "From Istanbul to Busan; Placing MDGs in the Heart of Busan", on behalf of GCAP Korea.
The intended message of the presentation was to communicate the following:

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