TWENTY years after Band Aid, international stars have joined together in a new campaign to improve the plight of the developing world. Last night REM, Ricky Gervais and Minnie Driver performed at an all-star concert, backed by Oxfam and Coldplay singer Chris Martin, under the banner Make Trade Fair.
The campaign will climax next summer when the Government chairs the G8 summit. Driver, the British Hollywood star, said she was supporting the campaign following an Oxfam sponsored trip to Cambodia.
“When you see 13-year-old girls who have to leave their homes to go to the capital and live in extreme poverty where they work for less than 40p a month to make the clothing we all wear — you have to get off your backside and do something,” she said.
The Oxfam campaign calls for rich countries to remove barriers to imports from impoverished countries.