SAPPORO — The Group of Eight leaders need to "act now" and place eradicating poverty at the top of their agenda because 30,000 children are dying every day in the developing world, British actor Bill Nighy said.
Nighy, an established actor who has appeared in the films "Love Actually," "Notes on a Scandal" and "Pirates of the Caribbean," is also an ambassador for Oxfam International, a U.K.-based confederation of 13 organizations aiming to reduce poverty and injustice.
Nighy said he is in Hokkaido during the G8 summit to remind the leaders of "the magnificent promises they made in recent years to guarantee to raise aid to developing countries to $50 billion a year by 2010," referring to a pledge the G8 leaders made at the 2005 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland.