Advocacy: Calling for a better world When Caritas speaks, its voice is heard. It is heard by governments, policy and lawmakers, drug companies, the United Nations, other humanitarian organisations. It is a powerful voice, created fromhundreds of thousands of voices around the world. >>

Poverty in Europe Caritas believes it is scandalous that eighty million people live below the poverty line in Europe, a quarter of them children. >>

Voices against poverty Backing up their work on the ground with advocacy, Caritas Internationalis launched its web-based campaign "Voices Against Poverty" in Australia in September. >>

Worldwide solidarity at the World Social Forum An African proverb that would best sum up the global movement that is the World Social Forum would be: “Many small people in many small places will do many small things to change the world”. >>

Civil society uniting to build a different world The World Social Forum brings together thousands of social movements from civil society. Associations, NGOs, trade unions, agricultural unions and so on, all have come to build a more just world. >>