What We’re Reading 5/15/09
Charlotte Observer: A To address global poverty, first fight for global health (opinion)
Senator Frist writes in the Charlotte Observer in support of President Obama’s global health initiative announced last week. He writes as a Board Member of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
AFP: African Development Bank seeks to treble its funding
The head of the African Development Bank Donald Kaberuka said Thursday he is in negotiations with shareholders to treble its capital reserves to around 100 billion dollars.
Reuters: Rich must keep promise to help poor adapt to climate change
The world will fail to reach a new deal to tackle global warming unless rich countries stick to a promise to help poorer nations adapt to the harmful effects of climate change, says the final report of an international commission backed by the United Nations.
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Fight the Famine, Feed the Future
ONE is campaigning to ensure that the Congressional budget does not cut foreign assistance programs like Feed the Future that help people break the cycle of poverty and hunger. -
Crisis in the Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years. More than 11 million people, mostly nomadic pastoralists and farmers in south-central Somalia, north-eastern Kenya, and south-eastern Ethiopia, are severely lacking access to food. -
The Beginning of the End of AIDS
2011 marks 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were documented. Take a closer look at the specific, achievable goals we must hit by 2015 to make this year the beginning of the end of AIDS. -
Agriculture Accountability
As aid agencies warn more than 9 million people could be affected by a food crisis in East Africa, world leaders are failing to keep their 2009 promises to tackle the causes of chronic hunger and support farmers in the world's poorest countries.
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