Media Centre
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‘This Way Out’: ONE Campaign Shares Plan to End the Pandemic
OTTAWA – The ONE Campaign today released its Five Point Plan to End the Pandemic, intended to provide a roadmap for world leaders to finally curb the COVID-19 crisis, support a truly global health and economic recovery, and strengthen global response protocol for future pandemics. Much has changed since the early days of COVID-19, not…
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ONE appoints Suzanne Granville as North America Executive Director
OTTAWA– The ONE Campaign, the global advocacy organization co-founded by U2 lead singer Bono to fight extreme poverty and preventable diseases, has appointed Suzanne Granville to be its Executive Director for North America. Granville joined ONE in 2012 and served as Senior Director of United States Membership Mobilization, organizing ONE’s grassroots campaign efforts in the…
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G7: ONE welcomes Global Alliance for Food Security (GAFS)
19 May 2022 – Earlier today G7 ministers announced the launch of the Global Alliance for Food Security (GAFS). The development organisation ONE welcomes the initiative but cautions that the Alliance will be judged on its ability to meet the needs of people facing severe food insecurity, curb the rapid rise in food prices and…
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ACTIVISTS CHALLENGE WORLD LEADERS TO TACKLE CONVERGING CRISES AT UPCOMING GLOBAL SUMMITS
In the face of an unchecked pandemic, an uneven global recovery and a new food and energy crisis, world leaders need to step up and act at high level meetings taking place this week in the United States and Europe. “The West’s response to the war in Ukraine shows that governments can work together…
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ONE Reacts to Canada’s 2022 Budget
“The world today is facing converging crises of conflict, pandemics, and climate change. We continue to face a global health crisis and must respond to the challenge of rebuilding and preparing for what is next. Canada was one of the first countries to invest our fair share in the ACT Accelerator and with this budget…
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ONE reacts to the G20 Leaders’ Summit
Speaking from Rome, Emily Wigens, EU Director at the ONE Campaign, said: “The G20 fell short of delivering collective action needed to tackle the pandemic despite progress on climate and commitments from some individual countries and the efforts of the Italian Presidency. “The support expressed for the 70% global vaccination goal raises the real possibility of…
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Act now or face a decade-long pandemic, warn campaigners
Rome, 28th October. As the G20 leaders prepare to meet in person for the first time since the start of the pandemic, new analysis released by the ONE Campaign today reveals the chief obstacles standing in the way of global efforts to end the pandemic. The analysis shows that a key challenge remains the uneven distribution…
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A failure to take decisive action to end the pandemic
ONE and Global Citizen react to the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings and G20/G7 meetings Reacting to the end of the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings, Dr David McNair, Executive Director of Global Policy at the ONE Campaign, said: “This could have been a game-changing moment in the fight against COVID-19. It wasn’t. The pandemic is…
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WORLD OFF TRACK TO MEET NEW GLOBAL VACCINATION TARGET
New analysis projects world could fall short of new target by 1.2 billion people OTTAWA — As world leaders meet today at the global COVID-19 summit convened by President Joe Biden, new analysis released by The ONE Campaign highlights the pressing need for countries to seize this opportunity to accelerate efforts to get vaccines…
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“A decidedly underwhelming result” – ONE reacts to the Global Education Summit
Following today’s Global Education Summit announcements where donors raised around $4 billion, and 18 Heads of State endorsed President Kenyatta’s domestic call to action and committed to $192 billion in domestic funding for education for the next five years, the ONE Campaign has released the following statement. Speaking about what the outcome of the GES…
