World leaders gather at the Global Citizen Festival to respond to call to end extreme poverty

GPE media coverage - September 21, 2015

On September 26th, 2015, world leaders and prominent activists will gather at the 2015 Global Citizen Festival to call on the world to create a lasting movement to end extreme poverty by 2030.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Malala Fund co-founder, Malala Yousafzai; U2 lead singer and cofounder of ONE, Bono; Board Chair of the Global Partnership for Education, Julia Gillard, UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon; Bill and Melinda Gates; World Bank Group President, Dr Jim Yong Kim and many others have already announced their on-stage participation.

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