As G7 leaders meet for their annual summit on 7 June, hundreds of anti-poverty campaigners are expected to travel to Germany this week to call for action to stamp out tax evasion and increase aid for the world’s poorest countries.
The G7 member countries – the UK, US, France, Germany, Italy and Japan and Canada (it should be the G8, but Russia has been excluded) – will meet in the Bavarian village of Schloss Elmau to discuss global and economic policies. African heads of state will join leaders on the second day of the summit for talks on growth and development in the lead-up to adopting the new sustainable development agenda in September.
Among the campaigners set to gather at the talks will be 250 young people calling for greater action on extreme poverty and inequality. The contingent of youth ambassadors will travel to Germany from around the globe as part of their involvement in One campaign’s movement for more aid to be allocated to the world’s poorest.
One campaigners were in Dresden for the G7 finance ministers’ meeting last week, where they installed large balloons bearing the faces of heads of state as they demanded “more than hot air” from the talks.
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