Tuesday 8th January - Lauren Laverne and Cherry Healey were joined by celebrity friends including Gizzi Erskine, Grace Dent, Sharon Horgan and Grace Woodward for a girls' night out to launch Oxfam's Get Together for International Women's Day, which raises money to support women living in poverty worldwide.
The launch party was all about inspiring ideas for Get Together events and encouraging women to get planning for International...
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"The UK government is showing admirable international leadership through sustaining its level of aid to Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest countries. Because of international aid a record number of boys and girls now go to school. Afghanistan's future relies on these children and their potential. Huge challenges of extreme poverty, the position of women and corruption remain. The hard won gains of recent years need to be secured...
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Commenting on the Prime Minister's speech at today's DFID/Gates Family Planning Summit Kathleen Spencer Chapman, Oxfam senior policy adviser, said:
"Using British aid to give women in poor countries greater choice over whether to become pregnant will save lives and is something of which we can be proud. We are delighted that the Prime Minister continues to make the case for aid to the UK public.
"To realise...
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