Music can hold real power for positive change. When songs of protest and inspiration hit the mood of the time just right, they have helped change laws, free the innocent and end wars!
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If you want to have a REAL scare this Halloween, check out our list of the most SHOCKING global poverty facts that we're willing to bet you didn't know.
Today is the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s birthday.
As he’s fairly new in the job, we thought this would be a good opportunity to wish him a great day, but also send him a very important message.
Australian aid has helped achieve amazing things – like cutting extreme poverty in half in the last 25 years. But rather like the cake we hope Malcolm is enjoying today, it’s recently been cut. A lot.
In fact by next year, Australia could be...
On a recent rainy morning, Léna Diop, 21, and a few members of her family get a slow start to their day in the working-class Dakar suburb of Guédiawaye, Senegal...
In Africa today there is a steadily rising number of young businessmen and women who are building successful, fast growing companies. Here at ONE we’re especially interested in those using their business acumen to help solve critical socio-economic problems. Check out our top 7.
With Halloween right around the corner, everyone is planning their fancy dress, stocking up on sweets and of course - buying their pumpkins! But did you know that in Uganda, pumpkins are not only popular and prevalent, but are also sources of income for many?
The new movie Suffragette tells the story of the vote for women in the UK – but what are the big global issues in the quest for gender equality today? We run through the biggest present-day challenges to Global Goal number 5.
In honor of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, read about members of an agricultural community in Malawi helping to lift each other out of extreme poverty.
Guest blogpost by Natasa Kokic, ONE member and volunteer
Today sees the kick-off of U2’s iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE tour in Europe. Over the next few weeks, stages and stadiums across Europe will be lit up with music, with joy, with euphoria. Throats will be raw, tears will be shed, but above all, powerful and lasting memories will be made.
As a music lover and long-time social justice activist, a question I’ve long asked myself is this: How can music help in...
Africa is a beautiful and varied continent, but going by what you see from the majority of photographs in the media, you’d be forgiven for thinking all that existed in each of its 54 countries was never ending savannahs and endless safaris.
This year a brilliant hashtag erupted on social media – #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou – which aimed to break the perception that all African countries were the same – affected by poverty, war and hunger – and boy were the...