Christian Aid has placed itself in the frontline along with many other international aid agencies and world leaders in the battle to actively tackle poverty and trade justice. Earlier this week the organisation commenced its campaign: 'Christian Aid Week', which will take place from 15–21 May.
As world poverty and trade injustice are currently common challenges for all mankind, the whole world is coming together to stand up against it. Millions are expected to take part, including UK celebrities backing the action for the world's poorest people.
This year's 'Christian Aid Week' calls on the British government to end the support of the devastating 'free' trade rules that are battering poor communities in developing countries like India. Such policies have led to a crisis in agriculture, spiralling rural debt and an epidemic of suicides among poor farmers.
According to a report of Christian Aid in Jamaica, increasing numbers of women have been driven to prostitution and drug smuggling by a continuing round of liberalisation.
In Ghana, democratic institutions have been subverted by the demands of doctrinaire free-market policies, where the International Monetary Fund (IMF) effectively overturned a law to protect poor farmers.
Christian Aid calls upon the new British government to turn its rhetoric into reality, as Labour’s election manifesto said that developing countries should no longer be forced to liberalise and privatise in order to receive aid.
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