Oxfam Campaigns: Health and Education for All

What has been achieved?

As a direct result of your tireless campaigning, 2005 was a landmark year for the MDG campaign. There was massive worldwide mobilisation and significant victories on debt cancellation and more and better aid. > The MDGs

What is Global Call to Action against Poverty?

The Global Call to Action against Poverty, a global campaign launched in Porto Alegre in January 2005, laid down the gauntlet for world leaders to achieve a breakthrough on world poverty in 2005. Since then it has grown into the world’s largest-ever anti-poverty alliance, its organisations together represent more than 150 million globally, with national campaigns active in more than 80 countries.

What will be happening in 2006?

The campaign to end poverty will continue globally as Oxfam and its GCAP colleagues around the world continue to pile on the pressure so that all of our demands, particularly those concerning national government commitments to achieve and surpass the MDGs, will be met.

In the UK, Oxfam will be working with many of the organisations that were involved in Make Poverty History to take forward the campaign to end poverty. (Make Poverty History verdict)

Our priorities will be:

Delivering on past promises – debt cancellation, more and better aid, and trade justice, as well as greater commitment on budgets from southern governments;
Demanding tough regulations on the arms trade which is out of control;
Health and Education for all.
Urgent action is needed to guarantee people’s human rights to quality education, basic health care, water and sanitation; and to empower women to secure rights for themselves and their families. Oxfam will be campaigning for education, health and water for all poor people – at the heart of this campaign is the delivery of an accountable and effective public sector.

Oxfam will be demanding:

More teachers, nurses and other public-sector workers;
An end to user fees – rich countries and southern governments should pay for health care and education, not poor people;
More money from rich countries for the Global Health Fund and the Education for All fast-track initiative (Global Campaign for Education). And for southern governments to commit more of their budgets to health and education.

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