Jim Yong Kim is president of the World Bank Group. He traveled to the Great Lakes region with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from May 22 to 24. Jim Kim and Ban Ki-moon greeting each other in Kinshasa at the very beginning of the trip. Photo credit: © Dominic Chavez/World Bank GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo
Last week, ONE’s team on the ground in Bali continued to lobby the members of the High Level Panel (HLP) on our Open for Development petition and the preliminary results of the You Choose campaign from Malawi, South Africa and Zambia.
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I just finished watching this heart-wrenching video on child labor in India. It shows images of young children making colorful Christmas ornaments, gifts and trinkets, where they are forced to work more than 12-hour days in cramped, dimly lit workshops away from their families. It broke my heart to see the children painstakingly assembling the
Notwithstanding its popularity as tourist destination Thailand has achieved steady economic growth over the last decade largely due to industrial and agriculture exports. These exports are mostly electronics, agricultural commodities and processed foods – the production of which is heavily reliant on electricity. However, 30 years ago, only 25 percent of the population had access to electricity – so what changed?
Today, one in eight people on the planet are undernourished.780 million people around the world lack access to clean water – that’s more than 2.5 times the population of the United States, and our current energy consumption rate of 13 trillion thermal watts, is straining the environment and depleting our energy resources. In a world of 7 billion, our resource scarcity has already reached unprecedented levels.
In this blog post, former UK Prime Minister and newly appointed UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown explains how activists can help provide every child in the world with a decent education through a new UN initiative, Education First. Education, we all know, is the foundation of a better life –- not just
This blog post was originally published on Huffington Post Impact. It highlights our new report on the Millennium Development Goals, “What the World Wants.” The UN-led process for determining the next round of global development goals is officially underway. Politicians, technocrats, and bureaucrats have been effectively deputized to determine what should build upon and replace
The Millennium Development Goals or MDGs are mentioned regularly by ONE (and many other campaigning organizations) — but how well-known are they? Could you list all eight? And do you how many are likely to have been met by their target date of 2015? The MDGs are a set of poverty-busting targets agreed by 189
Mark Bowden, UN resident and humanitarian coordinator and UNDP resident representative for Somalia, says that ongoing support is necessary to help beat the famine in the Horn of Africa. This piece was originally published on UNDP’s blog. Women await assistance at a feeding site in Mogadishu. Approximately 100,000 people are benefiting from cooked meals on
UNDP goodwill envoys Ronaldo and Zinédine Zidane raise funds to fight the first famine of the 21st century with a friendly game of soccer. Find out where you can watch the match here. Americans call it “soccer,” but the rest of the world calls it “football.” Whatever you call it, two of the game’s finest,
Today, President Obama gave his first address to the UN General Assembly today, focusing on the pursuit of peace in an imperfect world. His speech touched on the highlights of the year, including South Sudan’s independence, the Ivory Coast’s landmark election, the famine in the Horn of Africa and HIV/AIDS. Perhaps the most moving part
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