Oxfam attacks failure to meet poverty pledges

  • 25/06/2000

  • Financial Times (London)

There would be 1.7m fewer child deaths this year had the world's governments met pledges made at the 1995 social development summit on Copenhagen, says an Oxfam report. None of the anti-poverty commitments made in Copenhagen are likely to be met by the target year 2015, according to Oxfam, the international development agency, in a report on global trends in child deaths, education and poverty to the special session of the UN general assembly that opened in Geneva.