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In 2005, a former rock star announced that ‘Every single day, 50,000 people are dying, needlessly, of extreme poverty More than were dying at the time of Live Aid. Dying of AIDS, dying of hunger, dying of diseases like TB and Diarrhoea. Dying, often for want of medicines which we can buy over the counter in a chemist’, continuing on that this was ‘the starting point for THE LONG WALK TO JUSTICE — we will not tolerate the further pain of the poor while we have the financial and moral means to prevent it’.1
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Everill, B. (2013). Freetown, Frere Town and the Kat River Settlement: Nineteenth-Century Humanitarian Intervention and Precursors to Modern Refugee Camps. In: Everill, B., Kaplan, J. (eds) The History and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention and Aid in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137270023_2
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