Media Centre
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“WORDS ALONE ARE NOT ENOUGH”: ONE Campaign Reaction to G7 Summit
The 2022 G7 Summit showed welcome ambition but delivered little to address converging crises
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Campaigners Urge G7 To Deliver Actions Rather Than Broken Promises – As Latest Data Shows The Full Cost Of Converging Crises
Ahead of the G7 Summit, new ONE analysis shows that global life expectancy has fallen for the first time in decades, and lays out the steps leaders need to take to fix the converging crises
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Former Commonwealth Heads of Government call for the successful replenishment of the Global Fund
LONDON, UK: Former leaders of Commonwealth countries have penned an open letter in support of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, calling on their governments to ensure it has the necessary resources to tackle the three killer diseases at the Fund’s replenishment conference later this year. The letter, signed by 15 former…
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ONE reacts to the European Commission’s 2023 Draft Budget
Brussels – Today, the European Commission presented its draft budget for 2023, proposing EUR 16 781,9 for Heading 6 – Neighbourhood and the world, out of which EUR 11 970,8 will be financing the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument. Approximately 88% of the flexibility instrument, nearly EUR 453 million, has been attributed to Heading…
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ONE responds to the FCDO’s 2022 International Development Strategy
Today, 16th May 2022, the FCDO has published an International Development Strategy (1), which outlines a new direction for the FCDO’s priorities. Responding, Romilly Greenhill, UK Director of The ONE Campaign, said: “While we welcome some aspects of today’s strategy, there is a real danger that this strategy is all mouth and no trousers. For…
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ONE Responds to reports ahead of International Development Strategy
“It is right to want UK aid to have the most impact and value for money possible, but this is often best achieved by working with the international organisations the Foreign Secretary wants to move away from.”
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ONE Response to UK Global Covid Summit Announcement
Today the Global Covid Summit took place, where donors were asked to provide new pledges to boost the international pandemic response. The UK, for the third time, did put anything new on the table.
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ONE reaction to the European Commission’s commitment at the 2nd Global COVID Summit
Brussels – This Thursday, the US, Germany, Indonesia, Senegal and Belize co-hosted a summit on the global COVID 19 response. These meetings come in the wake of new data issued by the WHO showing that the global death toll from the pandemic is now over 15 million. The EU committed 300 million EUR on a…
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Activists challenge world leaders to tackle converging crises at upcoming global summits
Washington DC – 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…
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ONE reacts to the IMF World Economic Outlook report
Today, the IMF released its flagship World Economic Outlook report where it downgraded its global growth projections down by almost 1% in 2022 from January’s projections and a slow down from 6.1% in 2021 to 3.6% in 2022 and 2023. Concerningly, the new projections also show a persistent divergence between emergent and developing economies and…