​Edinburgh World Justice Festival will assess the Make Poverty History movement

The successes and the failures of the Make Poverty History movement will be held in judgement – a decade on.

Hundreds of thousands of people took part in a march through Edinburgh to coincide with the Gleneagles meeting of the G8 world leaders in 2005.

Pledges were made by government on steps that would be taken to tackle inequality.

Ten years later, what has been achieved? That is the question that will be addressed at the Edinburgh World Justice Festival on Thursday (2 July).

Gillian Wilson, the chief executive of the Network of International Development Organisations Scotland (NIDOS), said: “Workshops will reflect on what has been achieved, what we have learnt from what has not worked so well and where next with to achieve change.

“The purpose of the event is to review what can we take from 2005 and the decade that has followed. What are the priorities for organising for social justice in 2015?”

Sarah Boyack MSP, convenor of the cross party group on international development, will chair the event and speakers will include Wilson and Mike Gonzalez, a retired professor of Latin American Studies at Glasgow University, who will reflect on the Make Poverty History march and what it achieved, what has been achieved since.

Organisers will build towards a conference on world justice from 2 – 11 October.

The free event takes place at 7pm in the Augustine Church, 41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL. To book go to the event's Facebook page.