A total of 25 people turned up at Birmingham's International Convention Centre in their fair trade underwear.

Campaign group Pants to Poverty said the "pantathlon" showed "the unfinished business of third world debt".

The subject had been on the agenda of the world leaders, who included Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, a decade ago.

That meeting prompted 70,000 people to join the campaign calling for millions of pounds of debts to be cleared to help those in poorer nations and they formed a chain around Birmingham.

However, campaigners have said not enough has been done since then to help people living in some of the poorest countries in the world.