Keith Locke to the Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Official Development Assistance): Does New Zealand have a timetable to meet the United Nations target of 0.7% of gross national income spent on foreign aid by 2015; if not, why not?
The Green Party is 100% behind this petition.
It is simply not good enough that our Overseas Development Assistance is still down at 0.24% of GNI.
There is no excuse for the Labour government si
The Greens are calling on the Government to increase its foreign aid budget by $60 million a year for the next ten years so New Zealand can fulfil its international obligations to the world's poor.
When will the level of Government overseas aid reach the level of 0.5 percent of gross national income achieved by the 1972-75 Labour Government in 1975?