Press Releases

15 June 2006

DATA today welcomed UK Chancellor Gordon Brown’s commitment to spend at least $15 billion on aid for education over the next ten years.

23 May 2006

onight, thousands of Americans will gather in all 50 states to watch the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams broadcast live from Africa for the first time, joining U2 lead singer and DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa) co-founder Bono on his six country listening and learning tour of Lesotho, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Mali and Ghana.

9 May 2006

Academy Award winner Matt Damon recently returned from a listening and learning trip to Africa organized by Africa advocacy group DATA (debt AIDS trade Africa) and ONE. Damon focused his 6-day trip in Zambia where he observed firsthand how American funding to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty and international cooperation are saving and transforming lives in Africa.

4 May 2006

“Americans sent over 350,000 letters and emails to the White House and Congress calling on them to do more to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries. Today, the House of Representatives failed to answer that call when lives are in the balance.

25 April 2006

ONE announced its new website today, continuing an unprecedented campaign to reach and engage millions of Americans in the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty at WWW.ONE.ORG.

10 April 2006

ONE announced today the MTV broadcast premiere of its new campaign to reach and engage millions of Americans in the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty.

21 March 2006

Today, local Dubuque ONE volunteer Rev. Joan Fumetti delivered over 160,000 letters to Iowa Congressman Nussle, asking him to boldly lead Congress in fully funding the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty.

16 March 2006

U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Rick Santorum (R-PA) today applauded the passage of their amendment to increase the United States’ contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria to $866 million in fiscal year 2007.

1 March 2006

ONE announced a new internet campaign today to reach and engage millions of Americans in the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty

2 February 2006

Addressing the National Prayer Breakfast, U2 lead singer and DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) co-founder Bono today called on faith leaders and policy makers to support life-saving initiatives to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty, asking for their support of ONE and an additional 1% of the U.S. federal budget for effective international assistance.

18 December 2005

Today, trade ministers completed trade talks critical to the outcome of the World Trade Organization Doha Development round. While the agreement makes some progress on changing the rules of trade, international trade negotiators have missed a crucial opportunity in Hong Kong to fight poverty though the real reform of trade.

9 December 2005

Tomorrow, December 10th, ONE will be joined in the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty by the states of Iowa, Connecticut and Maine and cities across the country from Gary, Indiana to Chattanooga, Tennessee, while Illinois will become the first state to introduce a “State of ONE” joint resolution in their Legislature.