AGL 38.10 Decreased By ▼ -1.48 (-3.74%)
AIRLINK 125.10 Decreased By ▼ -6.12 (-4.66%)
BOP 6.83 Increased By ▲ 0.02 (0.29%)
CNERGY 4.44 Decreased By ▼ -0.27 (-5.73%)
DCL 7.96 Decreased By ▼ -0.48 (-5.69%)
DFML 37.32 Decreased By ▼ -4.15 (-10.01%)
DGKC 77.80 Decreased By ▼ -4.29 (-5.23%)
FCCL 30.59 Decreased By ▼ -2.51 (-7.58%)
FFBL 68.31 Decreased By ▼ -4.56 (-6.26%)
FFL 11.84 Decreased By ▼ -0.42 (-3.43%)
HUBC 104.11 Decreased By ▼ -6.63 (-5.99%)
HUMNL 13.45 Decreased By ▼ -1.06 (-7.31%)
KEL 4.64 Decreased By ▼ -0.55 (-10.6%)
KOSM 7.16 Decreased By ▼ -0.45 (-5.91%)
MLCF 36.30 Decreased By ▼ -2.60 (-6.68%)
NBP 66.00 Increased By ▲ 1.99 (3.11%)
OGDC 178.98 Decreased By ▼ -13.84 (-7.18%)
PAEL 24.88 Decreased By ▼ -0.80 (-3.12%)
PIBTL 7.19 Decreased By ▼ -0.15 (-2.04%)
PPL 144.05 Decreased By ▼ -10.02 (-6.5%)
PRL 24.15 Decreased By ▼ -1.68 (-6.5%)
PTC 16.50 Decreased By ▼ -1.31 (-7.36%)
SEARL 78.50 Decreased By ▼ -3.80 (-4.62%)
TELE 7.25 Decreased By ▼ -0.51 (-6.57%)
TOMCL 31.91 Decreased By ▼ -1.55 (-4.63%)
TPLP 8.10 Decreased By ▼ -0.39 (-4.59%)
TREET 16.05 Decreased By ▼ -0.57 (-3.43%)
TRG 54.75 Decreased By ▼ -2.65 (-4.62%)
UNITY 27.50 Decreased By ▼ -0.01 (-0.04%)
WTL 1.29 Decreased By ▼ -0.08 (-5.84%)
BR100 10,088 Decreased By -416.8 (-3.97%)
BR30 29,472 Decreased By -1754.8 (-5.62%)
KSE100 94,619 Decreased By -3460.7 (-3.53%)
KSE30 29,469 Decreased By -1090 (-3.57%)

Thousands gathered in London's Trafalgar Square on Saturday to urge the British government to commit more money to tackling child poverty, which it has promised to end by 2020. Organisers said 10,000 people - police estimated 4-5,000 - attended the rally to urge the government to add three billion pounds (5.3 billion dollars, 3.8 billion euros) to next year's budget to tackle the problem.
Campaigners estimate about 3.9 million British children live in poverty - about one in three, the worst rate in the industrialised world. The government defines families as poor if their household income is less than 60 percent of the median, while the End Child Poverty coalition defines it as when a family has an average of 10 pounds (18 dollars) a day or less per person to live on. Prime Minister Gordon Brown met with leaders of the coalition of about 120 campaign groups at his Downing Street office on Saturday, before he headed to Paris for a summit on the financial crisis.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2008

Comments

Comments are closed.