On February 26th, Bono spoke at TED to show the progress in the fight against extreme poverty… and what we need to do next. Bono shares the new facts about fighting global poverty: “Forget the rock opera, forget the bombast, my usual tricks. The only thing singing today will be the facts.” By becoming a
ONE Co-founder Bono gave a powerful speech on activism and global social movements to a crowd of 700 students at Georgetown University last night. His nearly hour-long speech received a standing ovation and praise on Twitter and Facebook. Many students walked away feeling inspired and uplifted. “Best speech ever,” one student remarked as he left
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ONE Co-founder Bono and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim drew in hundreds of World Bank and ONE staffers, civil society and media to the Bank’s Washington, D.C. headquarters yesterday afternoon for a discussion on how to end world poverty. iphone Photo courtesy of World Bank Photos The talk, moderated by CNN correspondent Isha Sesay, was broadcast in a
Streaming by Ustream Tonight, ONE Co-founder Bono will be speaking to more than 700 Georgetown students and leaders in the corporate, nonprofit and political sectors at an event hosted by the Global Social Enterprise Initiative at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in Washington, D.C. He’ll be discussing the critical role social movements are playing to
Bill Gates was in Europe for stops in London and Paris. He’s traveling part of the time with Bono to meet with government leaders and policy makers of countries that are key contributors to global health and development work. This piece was originally published on the Gates Notes blog. I spent Wednesday in Paris, talking
UPDATE: For those who may have missed Bono’s remarks, you can check out the full video right here: Amid a flurry of public officials, business and NGO leaders and African heads of state at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs‘ Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security, ONE had one of it’s own represented: our
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs brought some incredible speakers to Washington last Friday for their Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security — including President Obama, African heads of state, G8 leaders and Bono — and you can bet that many powerful words were said. As one of ONE’s resident agriculture policy wonks, I
MSNBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell did a great interview with Bono and Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete last Friday at the Chicago Council’s Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security for her program, “Andrea Mitchell Reports.” During the interview, Bono praised President Obama’s new global food security alliance and urged world leaders to take action on corruption
ONE is in full-gear on all fronts heading into the G8 meeting this weekend, including our co-founder Bono. In addition to participating in our ONE Street Tweet action (you can see his message in the photo above) and speaking at tomorrow’s Chicago Council Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security, he has written a piece
Clear some space in your schedule this Friday for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security, a discussion on new activities to advance global agricultural development, food and nutrition security in Africa. This event is a dream come true for us here at ONE — we’ve been trying to
***UPDATED AS OF 3:08 PM ET*** ONE co-founder Bono commented on Invisible Children’s “Kony 2012” film and campaign in Ireland’s edition of the Sunday Times yesterday. The campaign, which aims to raise global support for the arrest of Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony, has caught the attention of the world over the past few days,
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