Haslemere Group
The Haslemere Group was an informal group of people, which included many Oxfam staff and its supporters, that took a radical approach to the causes of underdevelopment. It famuously produced The Haslemere Declaration on world poverty which was published on 26 March 1968.[1]
The Declaration also included the claim that the 'exploitation of the Third World is qualitatively similar to, and caused by, the same politio-economic factors which are the basis of poverty in Britain'. [2]
It was also noted for organising the lecture delivered by Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife (Brazil), at the Haslemere Group's Convention on Poverty is Violence; Exploitation of the Third World, at the Round House, London, in 1969.[3]
References
- Haslemere Declaration Group (1968) The Haslemere Declaration: A Radical Analysis of the Relationships between the Rich World and the Poor World; London, HDG and Third World First