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Stamp Out Poverty campaigns for additional sources of finance to bridge the massive funding gap required to bring the world’s poorest people out of poverty.
We are a network of more than 50 UK organisations, trade unions and faith groups, including Oxfam, Save the Children, Christian Aid and the TUC, pioneering initiatives such as a stamp duty on sterling currency transactions, which can raise billions of pounds for international development.
Jon Snow from Channel 4 News introduces our new short film, Can Pay, Should Pay , which is the best introduction to our campaign for a sterling stamp duty. Please watch it now and recommend it to your friends.
Without additional, sustainable and predictable finance, the Millennium Development Goals, agreed to at the United Nations in 2000 - which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – cannot be achieved.
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Film launch reception at Westminster:
'Can Pay, Should Pay' is a new film from Stamp Out Poverty which calls for the implementation of a sterling stamp duty to help finance the MDGs. Introduced by Channel 4's Jon Snow, the film is interesting, informative and a very useful campaign tool.
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MPs support sterling stamp duty:
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Debt, Aid and Trade has launched a report in which it urges the government to introduce a 0.005% levy on sterling currency transactions as a way of raising money to combat global poverty
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UNITAID - one year on:
UNITAID has been fully operational for over a year. Its strategic importance for the future of development finance means that it is vital that its achievements are assessed and its potential examined.
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