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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.
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ONE Campaign: World leaders must act now on crisis in Lake Chad Basin
Emergency food aid and other investments are badly needed in northeast Nigeria to keep tens of thousands of children from starvation and disease, warns anti-poverty group The ONE Campaign. A
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ONE Campaign responds to refugee summit in New York
“This is a great first step, but let’s be clear: this is just a first step. Even if every commitment made this week is delivered, there will still be 2.7 million refugee children out of school. Donors and refugee-hosting countries need to work together urgently to ensure that all refugee children are getting an education within 30 days of being displaced. These children have already lost their homes. They shouldn’t lose their futures, too.”
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ONE DATA Report 2016: Global instability will rise as refugee crisis puts pressure on foreign aid budgets
Governments must stop fatal trade-off between long-term development aid and the refugee crisis WASHINGTON: 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…
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African Business leader and Philanthropist, Aliko Dangote, joins Board of The ONE Campaign
Anti-poverty group The ONE Campaign has welcomed the appointment of Aliko Dangote to its Board.
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Michael Elliott
The ONE Campaign is sad to report that Michael Elliott, our much-loved former President and CEO, died yesterday evening, July 14. Emma Oxford, Michael’s wife, said: “My daughters and I are heartbroken at the loss of Mike, my beloved husband of forty years, and adored father to Roxana and Gina. Mike’s zest for life never…
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ONE celebrates the passage of Global Food Security Act
Legislation will help developing countries grow their way out of extreme poverty WASHINGTON — The ONE Campaign celebrated the passage today of the bipartisan Global Food Security Act (GFSA). The GFSA was sponsored in the Senate by U.S. Senators Bob Casey, Jr. (D-PA) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and in the House by U.S. Representatives Chris…
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ONE celebrates passage of bill to make foreign aid more accountable
Greater transparency improves the impact of poverty-fighting assistance WASHINGTON — The ONE Campaign today celebrates the House of Representatives’ passage of the bipartisan Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act (FATAA), introduced by U.S. Representatives Ted Poe (R-TX-2) and Gerry Connolly (D-VA-11), and by U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ben Cardin (D-MD). The Senate passed…
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ONE Campaign welcomes SEC’s rule on Dodd-Frank 1504
Lack of transparency enables corruption and shady deals that cost the developing world $1 trillion WASHINGTON — As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its rule to implement Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the ONE Campaign issued the following reaction from Tom Hart, ONE’s…
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ONE applauds Representatives Royce, Engel for introducing Legislation to Promote Internet Access in Developing Countries
WASHINGTON — The ONE Campaign celebrated the introduction of H.R. 5537, the Digital Global Access Policy Act of 2016 yesterday. The bipartisan legislation was introduced by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and the Committee’s Ranking Member, Eliot Engel (D-NY) and co-sponsored by House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Foreign…
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The ONE Campaign pays tribute to Jo Cox MP – an extraordinary campaigner for a better world
Adrian Lovett, interim CEO of The ONE Campaign, paid tribute to his friend and former colleague Jo Cox, who was killed today. “Many of us at ONE knew Jo as a friend, colleague and advocate for social justice. We are deeply shocked and saddened by her death and our thoughts go out to her family.”…
