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

Notes

1. McCabe, Herbert (2003) Law, Love and Language - Appendix 1
2. Sweetman, Caroline(1994) 'Editorial', Gender & Development, 2: 3, 1 — 5
3. Camara, Dom Helder (1969)Violence and Misery, New Blackfriars, Volume 50 Issue 589, Pages 491 - 496