"The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is an emerging worldwide alliance consisting of national platforms of campaigns to end poverty.

GCAP brings together a range of actors: existing anti-poverty coalitions, community groups, trade unions, individuals, NGOs, and religious and faith groups. The call structures itself and around national platforms, which feed into a regional and global structures.

It was formed in 2004, and was launched the World Social Forum in Brazil in January 2005. Throughout 2005 it mobilised millions through a series of 'White Band Days', when the symbol was used to highlight the injustice of global poverty. In 2006 it plans a month of actions and mobilisations from September 16th (to coincide with the Annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank) to October 17th (international day for the Eradication of Poverty).

It has become the most significant global anti-poverty platform to date, claiming to have involved some 38 million people in actions in 2005, in over 75 countries, but it has yet to prove itself as a sustainable and braod-based global movement."

See also

Extreme poverty Make Poverty History Extreme poverty is a severe state of poverty in which people are unable to purchase even basic human necessities, such as food, clothes, and shelter. ... The UK campaign A white band bilingual in Welsh and English. ...

External Links

Global Call to Action against Poverty (Whiteband.org) Official site