During 2005 GCAP members and supporters took more than 38 million actions around the world to put pressure on politicians and world leaders, who where attending crucial meetings that could, if the right decisions where made, commit to overcoming poverty.

GCAP members took actions, staged events and activities at local, regional and global levels, to show world leaders the unprecedented global support from people from all walks of life to find a way to end poverty.

Click here for stories and events in 2005. You can find out more about what happened in 2005 by visiting the pages of the national campaigns. Also check the whitebandbook! And download the GCAP 2005 big book.

Some severe! commentaries on Live 8, MPH and GCAP 2005

• When wearing white is not chic, and collaboration not cool
• LIVE AID 2
• The G8 Summit: A Fraud and a Circus
• Global Governance Campaigning and MDGs
• When white band spells white feather
• We achieved next to nothing
• Short term fame for long term pain
• Job of fixing Africa is in Africa's hands
• Bye-Bye to Blair, Brown, Bob and Bono
• Bards of the Powerful