Although this piece focuses on UK foreign assistance, it raises some important concerns that citizens  in the US and Canada might have about their country’s own aid. This article was originally published on The Huffington Post UK.  The debate on the UK’s aid budget has never been more polarized. A small group of aid critics use

 Guest blog from Stop AIDS Campaign This World AIDS Day, 1st December 2012, marks a critical moment in the global response to HIV and AIDS. Activists ask David Cameron, Why Stop Now? Photo: Stop AIDS Campaign Huge progress has been made since HIV was first identified over 30 years ago. 8 million people across the

I started this year traveling across Africa with Bono visiting places we hadn’t been for nearly a decade. One of these was northern Ghana. Ghana is often held up as a success story of development. It has a stable democracy, fast growing economy and has already met the Millennium Development Goal to halve extreme poverty.

Yesterday, as the London 2012 Olympics drew to a close, I was at 10 Downing Street to take part in a summit of leaders, experts and campaigners to launch a race against hunger and malnutrition. I wanted to tell you how it went – and to let you know that you have helped create a

Action: 54. Time: 5 minutes. Level of difficulty: Easy. Here’s another reason to get excited about the Olympics: At the end of the Games on August 12, British Prime Minister David Cameron will challenge global leaders to step up efforts to improve nutrition and decrease stunting among the world’s poorest children between now and the

Over the last couple of weeks, you might have noticed the large and exciting sporting event taking place in the UK. Athletes from all over the world have come together to compete in a spirit of peace and solidarity in the games. With the world’s eyes on London for the 2012 Olympic Games, we have

Tomorrow a group of 70 inspiring women will begin a four day trip across Europe with one goal in mind – to help ensure no child is born with HIV by 2015. The Cash & Rocket (RED) Tour is part of ONE’s sister organization (RED)’s campaign (RED)RUSH TO ZERO. It aims to raise awareness and

UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell announced today that the UK will support two million people in some of the world’s poorest countries access clean and reliable energy. In a press statement released after the Deputy Prime Minister meet with members of the Sustainable Energy for

The foreign aid budget isn’t just at risk in the US — it’s at risk in other countries, too. Take a look at what ONE UK is doing to protect their foreign aid budgets: In tomorrow’s budget Chancellor George Osborne is expected to announce that every UK taxpayer will receive an annual statement of what

As the UK Prime Minister David Cameron visits Washington, Michael Elliott, ONE’s President and CEO responds to today’s joint article by the Prime Minister and US President Barack Obama in the Washington Post. In the article they make clear that they “embrace their responsibility as leaders in the development that enables people to live in

In order to protect developing countries from being taken advantage of by financial predators, ONE UK is urging their members to call on UK courts to extend the vulture law to the island of Jersey. In this blog post, ONE UK campaigner Claire Hazelgrove explains why vulture funds are just plain wrong. Campaigners like you

Sir John Holmes, the former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, shares his analysis of what lies ahead for South Sudan. The results of the referendum in South Sudan confirm that 2011 will see the birth of a new state in Africa. Rejoicing in the south has been unconfined, as people see

Please welcome Laura Yu to the ONE Blog. She’ll be interning with ONE’s Policy Team this summer and contributing regularly: Andrew Mitchell, the newly-elected UK Secretary of State for International Development, gave his first overseas speech last Friday at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. There, he outlined the coalition government’s plan for international development,

The Today Show ran this segment this morning on the UK’s Prince William and Prince Harry visit to Lesotho as part of a 6-day tour of the continent. Check it out: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

You may have been following all of the developments around the UK’s election during the last 2 weeks. ONE’s Alexander Woollcombe offers his perspective from across the pond: After several gripping days of negotiations, we finally have a new Government in the UK, which is a coalition of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties. How