"Make G8 Policy History: African Women's Rights and the G8"
Contact:
Irene Schneeweis,
Media Coordinator
PHONE: 212-627-0444
EMAIL: media@madre.org
June 30, 2005-New York-On July 6, the Group of 8 (G8) will convene in Scotland to propose trade, aid, and debt policies that will affect poor women and their families throughout the Global South.
The G8 summit is accompanied by a public relations campaign portraying its agenda as part of UN-based efforts to eradicate poverty. In fact, the main policies that will be proposed next week have been proven to worsen poverty and inequality. As MADRE writes in a new report, "less than one percent of US aid goes to the poorest countries and the G8 conditions that money on privatization, trade liberalization, and debt servicing. The result is that poor countries pay out four times the amount they receive in aid from rich countries each year."
MADRE's report, "Make G8 Policy History: African Women's Rights and the G8," demonstrates the impact of G8 policy on women in the Global South; challenges the G8 to end the vicious cycle of debt, dependency, and poverty; and puts forward alternatives that would secure rights and resources for women and their families around the world.
Read MADRE's "Make G8 Policy History: African Women's Rights and the G8"
MADRE's Associate Director, Yifat Susskind, the author of the report, is available for interviews at (212) 627-0444.
