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The UN World Summit (or M+5 summit) took place from 14-16 September in New York and brought together the world's heads of state and governments in the biggest ever conference of world leaders.

The Summit was held to review the Millennium Declaration – including commitments on development, human rights and security – that world leaders made five years ago.


While world leaders came to make commitments on big issues of global security and UN reform, the one area where governments acted boldly was to agree on their collective responsibility to protect civilians facing genocide and other similar atrocities. However, world leaders missed a crucial chance for countries to truly commit to ending the terrible poverty, injustice and suffering that kill millions of people every year.

What was Oxfam calling for?

Oxfam joined hundreds of other organizations from around the world to demand that world leaders at the UN Summit agree to the following:

A ambitious plan to meet and......

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