Photo credit: http://www.brecorder.com/ Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old student activist from Pakistan who was brutally shot by the Taliban on October 9, awoke from her coma last week. Doctors say that she has regained consciousness, but will need a significant period of rest and recuperation. She wakes up from her coma to a world very different

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

Action: 61. Time: 5 minutes. Level of difficulty: Easy. The World Bank and the IMF are having their annual meeting this week to discuss international economic and financial developments, policies to strengthen inclusive economic growth and help countries overcome poverty. But this year, the World Bank wants to do something a little different: they want

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

ONE Global Creative Director Roxane Philson explains why sweet potatoes are superheroes in the fight against child malnutrition. Earlier today, Colin Farrell sent an email to hundreds of thousands of ONE members asking them to do one thing: Urge world leaders to make commitments to reduce chronic child malnutrition for 25 million children by 2016.

Action: 58. Time: 20 minutes. Level of difficulty: Difficult. This Thursday, we’re launching a new nutrition campaign centered around the sweet potato — but before it goes out, we need our most dedicated volunteers’ help in getting the campaign ready. We’re trying two creative actions that we’ve never tried before and would like to test

ONE members in front of the SEC building earlier this year Read the original press release here. ONE warmly welcomes the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) historic adoption of regulations to implement the Cardin-Lugar Amendment to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. While we await the full wording of the rule,

This blog post was originally published on ONE’s Africa Blog. As many of our readers know, last month ONE delivered its Thrive petition signed by almost 35,000 African citizens to the African Union Chair President Yayi Boni of Benin. President Boni and Benin’s Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Nassirou Bako Arifari promised to take our petition

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

Today, we’re asking our ONE members to tell President Obama to break the cycle of hunger and support plans for long-term investment in farming. ONE agriculture policy expert Molly Kinder explains why this action is critical to what is happening in sub-Saharan Africa today. An urgent humanitarian crisis has gripped the Sahel, where more than

I know that activists all around the country like myself are so thrilled that the International AIDS Conference is being hosted in Washington, D.C., this week. As I said in my recent op-ed in POLITICO, the United States is an indispensable partner in the fight against AIDS -– and while more must be done, I’m

Last month I was invited to speak at TED Global in Edinburgh. TED is an organisation devoted to ideas worth spreading. So I wanted to share with you my talk and an idea we’re working on with partners at ONE that I think needs spreading… In a few years’ time the Millennium Development Goals, which

This month, thousands of AIDS activists, experts and doctors are convening at the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., to figure out ways to work together on ending the AIDS epidemic. It’s an incredibly important moment, and that’s why we’re hosting a Google+ Hangout — a live video conference — next week to put this

I’m very excited to introduce our 2012 Summer Music Playlist! We’ve created it using Spotify, a free music service that you can download here. It includes music of different styles from all across Africa, both old and new, crowdsourced from ONE members on Twitter. Click on the songs to start listening at your computer. There’s