Page "Make Poverty History" Paragraph 2

An estimated 225, 000 ( BBC News ) campaigners marched in Edinburgh on 2 July 2005 The Make Poverty History campaign is a Great Britain and Ireland coalition of charities, religion groups, trade unions, campaigning groups and celebrities who mobilise around the Britain's prominence in world politics, as of 2005, to increase awareness and pressure governments into taking actions towards relieving absolute poverty.

The symbol of the campaign is a white " awareness bracelet " made of cotton or silicone.

Usually on the band the words would be written in black, with the ' Poverty ' word a lighter shade.

A ' virtual ' white band ).

Further criticism derives from the fact that some of these wristbands were proven to have been produced by forced labourers in Chinese sweatshops.