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Jul 13, 2015 · The huge Live 8 shows held back in July 2005 were designed to pressure Tony Blair, George Bush and other G8 heads of state to find a new settlement for the poorest countries in the world, as they...
Jul 2, 2006 · Live 8 made people realise that they could do something about poverty, according to Barbara Stocking, director of Oxfam GB, one of the main partners in the Make Poverty History coalition. Sir...
Apr 7, 2010 · Was the 2005 Live 8 concert a cynical exercise to portray Tony Blair and other world leaders as saviours of the world’s poor, while simultaneously undermining the Make Poverty History campaign’s effort to achieve a genuine change for good in the fight against poverty and injustice?
Live 8 (French: En direct 8, German: Live 8, Italian: Vivi 8, Japanese: ライブ8 (romanised: Raibu 8), Russian: Прямой эфир 8 (romanised: Pryamoy efir 8)) was a string of benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa.
Jul 9, 2015 · Did the Live 8 concerts and the 2005 G8 summit at Gleneagles help Africa's poorest nations cut their debt burden and alleviate poverty?
Jun 29, 2020 · Ten years after the event, Forbes magazine concluded the results were decidedly mixed. Its greatest legacy might be as a signature event in the long history of music celebrity charity efforts....
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Sep 30, 2022 · Hosted in July 2005, Live 8 was a set of benefit events that we designed to raise awareness of global poverty. Arranged as close to the 20th anniversary of Live Aid and the G8 conference as possible, it wanted to raise awareness and ask world leaders to pledge funds to fix world poverty.
