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g8 summit

September 26, 2018

Event on anniversary of Birmingham protest calls for action on unjust debt

In 1998, 70,000 people protested at the G8 summit, calling for the debts of 52 impoverished countries to be cancelled as a way of celebrating the millennium.
June 21, 2013

G8 corporate tax resolve fails its first test

Just after the G8 agreed to support developing countries collect taxes owed to them, a parliamentary committee voted against legislation to make the task easier.
June 19, 2013

David Cameron raises case of Shaker Aamer with President Obama

David Cameron has raised the case of Shaker Aamer with President Obama. Mr Aamer is on hunger-strike and is the last remaining British resident in Guantanamo Bay.
June 15, 2013

Securing a Syrian peace conference is major G8 challenge

Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin must throw all their political weight into making the Geneva peace conference on Syria at the G8 summit.
November 20, 2012

Human rights must top G8 agenda at 2013 summit, says Amnesty

Amnesty International says that human rights must be high on the agenda at the G8 summit in 2013 and that policing must respect the right of peaceful protest.
July 10, 2009

Major Economies Forum adopting a strategy of 'deferral and delay'

Tearfund said that like the G8, the seventeen nations that form the Major Economies Forum (MEF) have been “adopting a strategy of deferral and delay”.
July 10, 2009

Time-wasting by world leaders ‘risking millions of lives’

There was a negative response yesterday to the declaration from the Major Economies Forum which met on the sidelines of the G8 summit to discuss progress towards a global climate change deal scheduled to be completed by the end of the year.
July 10, 2009

'Time to show your climate credibility' G8 told

G8 leaders must demonstrate much greater political courage on climate change or they will condemn yesterday's Major Economies Forum declaration to being little more than hot air, Christian Aid has warned.
July 8, 2009

G8 displaying 'staggering disregard' for urgent action on climate finance

G8 leaders are in danger of squandering opportunities and plunging poor people into deeper climate chaos and poverty, the aid and development agency Tearfund has said.
July 8, 2009

G8 leaders doing an ‘Italian Job’ on developing world

As world leaders begin meeting in Italy, the aid agency World Vision has accused them of failing to honour aid pledges to the world’s poorest countries.