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ONE reacts to frustrating G20 Finance Ministers meeting
Following the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting where they instructed the IMF to develop a proposal on Special Drawing Rights, Dr David McNair, Global Policy Executive Director at the ONE Campaign, said: “We had high hopes for something concrete to come out of this meeting. A year into the crisis, it’s frustrating…
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ONE applauds Secretary Yellen’s call for new SDRs ahead of G20 finance meeting
WASHINGTON — The ONE Campaign, the global anti-poverty organization co-founded by Bono, released the below statement following the news that Secretary Yellen will back a new issuance of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) ahead of the G20 finance ministers meeting tomorrow. Tom Hart, North America executive director at The ONE Campaign said: “Secretary Yellen’s announcement…
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Global economic recovery in peril unless G20 Finance Ministers step up for vulnerable countries
Ahead of the G20 Finance Ministers meeting on Friday, the ONE Campaign warns that the global economic recovery is in peril unless all countries have the means to control the pandemic and build back their economies. With the global economy set to lose $22 trillion between 2020 and 2025, and the pandemic threatening to push…
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ONE welcomes the EU’s doubling fund to COVAX vaccine sharing programme at the G7
The EU’s contribution together with Germany, Canada, Japan, and the US has more than doubled contributions to COVAX to $7.5bn Brussels. The ONE campaign welcomes the EU and G7 leaders efforts today doubling contributions to the World Health Organisation COVAX programme to ensure global vaccines access. Announcements follow ONE Campaign recent findings that Australia, Canada,…
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ONE Responds to G7 Leaders’ meeting
“Make no mistake – this pandemic is as brutal as any war we have fought – it’s time we fought back with the same intensity.”
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Richest countries stockpiling a billion more vaccine doses than needed
As G7 leaders meet later today for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, new analysis released by global anti-poverty organisation The ONE Campaign shows that the world’s richest countries are on course to accumulate 1 billion more doses than they would need to fully vaccinate all their own citizens.
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“It’s the global economy, stupid!” G7 Finance Ministers risk derailing world recovery if they forget developing countries
Ahead of the G7 Finance Ministers Meeting this Friday, the ONE Campaign warns that insufficient economic support to developing countries could derail a global recovery. Against the backdrop of growing economic recession, spiralling debts and a liquidity crisis that threatens to undermine many nations’ ability to respond to the pandemic, the anti-poverty organisation urges G7…
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The ONE Campaign responds to announcement on measures against South African Covid-19 strain in UK
“Letting the virus evolve and mutate rather than doing everything needed to vaccinate the whole world as soon as possible is akin to letting your worst enemy develop the Death Star before you fight back.”
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Update on vaccine access tracker shows the EU monopolising the global supply of COVID-19 vaccines
Brussels – The ONE Campaign released updated results of the Vaccine Access Test, a comprehensive assessment to date of commitments to improve global vaccine coverage. The EU has decreased its score for the first time due to the purchase of an additional 300 million doses from Pfizer-BioNTech amassing overall contracts for 2.3 billion doses of…
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ONE reacts to news of Pfizer/BioNTech EMA vaccine approval: “the EU must not hoard vaccines at expense of poor”
Brussels- The European Medicines Agency recommended a marketing authorisation for BioNTech and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Following this decision, the European Commission will grant an authorisation to deploy the vaccine in the EU within days making the first vaccinations possible before the end of the year. ONE welcomes the progress but also cautions that to end…
