Media Centre
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ONE and Engineers Without Borders Canada team up to urge policy makers to put #PoliticsAside in fight against extreme poverty
U2 lead singer and ONE cofounder Bono in Ottawa Monday to meet Canadian development experts and support the #PoliticsAside campaign
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Strong Girl: Africa’s top women singers raise their voices to fight poverty
An outstanding line-up of top women musicians from across Africa have joined forces with ONE to create a brand new song called Strong Girl, a rally cry to empower girls and women everywhere.
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ONE Reacts to Canada FY 2015 Budget
Ottawa, Canada – ONE applauds Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Joe Oliver for maintaining current levels of funding for foreign aid in the 2015 budget.
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ONE Raises Alarm About Lack of Government Poverty-Fighting Commitments at Spring Meetings
As this weekend’s 2015 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund draw to a close, ONE expressed deep concern over the lack of new financial development commitments made by donor and developing nations. Concrete commitments must be made ahead of the July Financing for Development Summit in Addis Ababa in order to make poverty-reduction goals a reality.
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ONE reacts to drop in aid to poorest countries
Today, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (OECD DAC) released the preliminary Official Development Assistance (ODA) figures for 2014, showing how much donor countries gave in total last year. The new figures reveal that aid to the least-developed countries made a downward turn in 2014.
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ONE celebrates massive expansion of global vaccines programme
Today international leaders announced a massive expansion of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, by pledging $7.539 billion. The new funding announcement sets Gavi on a path to nearly double its impact in the next five years, immunising 300 million more children and preventing up to 6 million more deaths.
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The ONE Campaign response to The International Development Bill following the second reading in the House of Lords
“We are pleased to see this Bill pass its second reading in the House of Lords and continue its journey to becoming law. The Bill received overwhelming backing in the Commons last month and we are glad to see this repeated in the Lords.”
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New research warns global leaders poverty could increase for first time in a generation
According to new research, almost a billion extra people face a life of extreme poverty if leaders duck key decisions on poverty, inequality and climate change due to be taken at two crucial summits in New York and Paris later this year, with billions more continuing to face a life of hardship. That’s the warning by more than a thousand organisations around the world which are launching a new campaign called action/2015 calling on local and world leaders to take urgent action to halt man-made climate change, eradicate poverty and address inequality.
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ONE Welcomes Passage of Anti-Corruption Legislation in Canada
OTTAWA – The ONE Campaign welcomes the passage of the Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act in Canada, a new law establishing mandatory reporting standards for oil, gas, and mining companies. This law requires all publicly listed and large private oil, gas, and mining companies to publicly disclose the payments they make to governments for the…
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ONE reaction to the G20 Ebola Statement
Finally, the G20 has realized that it can’t ignore the Ebola crisis anymore. However, these words alone will not be sufficient in the light of the scope of the crisis.