British actors and musicians including Scarlett Johansson, Bono and Paul MacCartney, have joined together to end extrme poverty.

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The year-long charity campaign, Make Poverty History, wants world leaders to cancel debts to poor nations and provide better aid packages to the poor, the BBC reported Saturday.

The effort is supported by more than 100 charities including World Vision, unions and faith groups.

The campaign, to coincide with Britain hosting the G8 summit in Scotland and taking over presidency of the European Union, challenges Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair to address the problems of trade, aid and debt in developing countries.

"We can make extreme poverty history, I really believe that," Bono said. "The kind of stupid poverty where kids are dying for the lack of an immunization that costs 20 cents, or for lack of food in a world of plenty. Don't we want to be the generation that says no to that?"