Media Centre
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ONE celebrates adoption of historic new Global Goals for Sustainable Development
193 countries have committed to ambitious new plan to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030
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Strong Girl Remix: Male And Female Artists Harmonise Together For Women’s Empowerment And Justice
Some of Africa’s top male artists are to remix Strong Girl – a rallying cry for women’s empowerment featuring some of Africa’s top female stars that first got the world dancing in May.
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ONE hails UN’s Global Goals – real work yet to begin
BRUSSELS, 3 AUGUST 2015. Yesterday, the United Nations delegations in New York agreed on the text for a new agenda for global sustainable development over the next 15 years. The new Sustainable Development Goals will seek to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty, reduce inequality within and among countries, realise gender equality, and take urgent action…
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Financing for Development: Welcome focus on the poorest people, but action must follow words
World leaders at the third Financing for Development Conference have signed up to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, a new global agreement on how efforts to end extreme poverty will be funded. Get our full reaction.
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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 laments drop in aid to poorest countries
BRUSSELS, April 8th. 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. Valentina Barbagallo, ONE’s…
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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.
