Since the start of the postponed European Championship 2020 football — sorry, soccer — we‘ve been giving you our analysis – on how the competing teams’ political leaders have been performing in the fight to end the global pandemic everywhere.
As the Euros move from the group to the tournament’s knockout stage, it’s time to look at the key Euro players we want to see a strong performance from. The Round of 16 results are yet to be determined in...
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Megan Gieske is a storyteller and photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa.
A 1-hour drive from Johannesburg, rolling amber hills replace the concrete and skyscrapers of downtown. This is Tarlton. Here Vutlhari Chauke, the woman behind the agricultural business VT Harvest, is fighting against gender stereotypes and disempowerment, and she is bringing other women along with her.
Down a long dirt road, 10 greenhouses stand out against the slanting light of the afternoon sun. Women bend over crops of rocket, mint,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on women and girls. From threatening girls‘ education and taking a toll on women‘s work, to impacting maternal and reproductive care, the effects of the pandemic have more severely impacted women compared to their male counterparts. Thankfully, the world has an opportunity to change that.
At the Generation Equality Forum, a global gathering in Paris on 1-2 July focused on advancing gender equality, leaders will be presented with an opportunity to ensure...
Being a child of mixed heritage in Germany, as well as the first to study in my family, I have had to demonstrate a great deal of perseverance and determination to be able to move forward in life. Growing up, I realized first-hand how overly similar public discussions are and how this often leads to uniform decisions that are inherently unrepresentative of the people they affect. I have felt first-hand the effects of scarcity, poverty, and the resulting stigmatization...
For Day of the African Child, our amazing Global Activists came up with a great social media challenge and we would love for you to get involved! We want you to take a selfie or a video with or about your favorite children‘s book.
It could be one that you read as a child and greatly influenced you, it could be a book that you think that every 10-year-old should read — whatever it is, we want you to help...
At the weekend, England, the country that hosted the G7 Summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, got off to a winning start at the Euros. Unfortunately, the commitments from G7 leaders were definitely not a win. In the fight to end the pandemic and tackle global poverty, leaders completely missed the goal.
The WHO is calling for 70% of the global population to be vaccinated by this time next year. But the commitments made by G7 leaders this weekend would only...
Nearly a year and a half into the crisis, COVID-19 has taken as many as 12.7 million lives and cost the world economy trillions of dollars. It is threatening to push 115 million more people into extreme poverty, with women and girls fairing the worst.
In Africa, the aftershocks of the pandemic are particularly profound. Throughout West Africa, the price of staples is up 40% over a five-year average. At one point, Nigeria was spending 99% of its revenues on...
The world is over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and we’ve seen some progress in global coordination to end it, including the Biden administration’s deal with Pfizer-BioNTech to purchase 500 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to share globally. But we need more global action to end the pandemic for everyone, everywhere.
The fastest way to do so and beat the virus is to ensure that everyone, regardless of where they live, has access to vaccines. Otherwise, the world is at...
After a 12 month postponement, the European Championship 2020 tournament finally kicked off, with Europe’s leading football (or soccer) talent competing from 11 June – 11 July. Throughout the football tournament, we’ll be offering our own analysis, but instead of scoring countries on their skills on the pitch, we‘ll be focusing on their performance as leaders in the fight to end global poverty.
Group Stage: Round 1 – Global access to COVID-19 vaccines
The group stage of Euro 2020 (starting 11...
Keeping world leaders accountable for their actions is key to changing the world for the better. And now, during a global health crisis like COVID-19, it‘s more important than ever to make sure world leaders follow through on their promises to enact change.
That‘s where our ONE Activists come in. They meet and speak with politicians and changemakers regularly to hold them accountable for the things they care about, like global vaccine access, ending the pandemic for everyone, everywhere, and...