* GCAP announce launch of concert in Johannesburg

Civicus in Johannesburg, international secretariat of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, is shortly to announce that there will be a concert in Johannesburg called Africa Standing Tall against Poverty. The concert will take place in Mary Fitzgerald Square between 12.00 and 19.30 p.m. The concert is the first in a series of three that will be staged on the African continent the others will take place in Ghana and Kenya. The July 2nd. concert will be performed live and linked to the Live8 concerts which will be performed in London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Philadelphia, Canada and possibly in Russia. All the concerts share the same objective, to raise the issues of debt, trade and aid ahead of the G8 summit in Gleneagles, with a view to G8 leaders taking policy decisions that could significantly alleviate poverty.