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Ahead of World AIDS Day, ONE warns that progress against AIDS has stalled

“There really isn’t anything new in our report this year. And that’s the problem.” Funding for the global fight against AIDS was flat and gains in treatment and prevention have…

EU Budget 2017: Severe cuts to humanitarian aid

Finance ministers and the European Parliament reached an agreement on the EU budget for 2017. External funding commitments have been set at €10.162 million and payments at €9.483 million, an increase of some €730 million beyond the ceiling agreed back in 2013 in the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). These are new additional funds, which will for the most part be used to address the recently arisen needs of the refugee crisis.

Connecting more women and girls to the internet by 2020 could help lift millions out of poverty, ONE’s Making the Connection Report reveals

World leaders, governments, banks, telecom firms urged to connect 350m women and girls otherwise a generation is at risk of isolation from digital revolution Africa’s limited connectivity highlights divide…

Strong external aid budget crucial in fight to end extreme poverty

BRUSSELS, 26 OCTOBER 2016. The European Parliament has once again shown its support for the fight to end extreme poverty, when voting on the EU’s budget for 2017. MEPs…

The European Parliament votes ambitious aid increase in the 2017 EU budget

BRUSSELS, 28 SEPTEMBER 2016. Members of the European Parliament Committee on Budgets voted today on more than 2000 amendments to the Council’s position on the EU budget for 2017. In…

ONE Campaign responds to refugee summit in New York

“These children have already lost their homes. They shouldn’t lose their futures, too.”  NEW YORK — The ONE Campaign responded to the Leaders’ Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis on…

ONE celebrates largest multilateral investment in global health in history

Pledges to Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria are expected to save 8 million more lives MONTREAL — World leaders came together this weekend to make the largest…

Bono celebra uno storico investimento multilaterale sulla salute globale

Il Fondo Globale è un partenariato pubblico-privato che investe strategicamente in programmi per eradicare queste tre epidemie ed ha salvato fino ad ora 20 milioni di vite.

ONE DATA Report 2016: Global instability will rise as refugee crisis puts pressure on foreign aid budgets

Governments are failing to meet the unprecedented scale of humanitarian challenges because aid budgets in many countries are being stretched to cover the global refugee crisis, warns anti-poverty group The ONE Campaign in its report published today, The 2016 DATA Report: A Bolder Response for a Changing World.

ONE celebrates largest multilateral investment in global health in history

World leaders came together this weekend to make the largest multilateral commitment to a global health project in history, raising nearly US$13 billion for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.

MFF review: more resources for refugees and poverty eradication urgently needed

BRUSSELS, 14 SEPTEMBER 2016.  EU Vice-President for Budget Kristalina Georgieva presented today the expected mid-term review on EU Multi-Annual Financial Framework (MFF). The Commission stresses that the challenges of migration…

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ONE and Don’t Panic join together at two major summits on the Global Refugee crisis