130 million girls didn’t go to school today.
Not because they didn’t want to, but because they weren’t given the chance.
They are denied an education for a variety of reasons, from cultural norms and costs, to violence and extremism. The result is that these 130 million girls don’t have a fair chance to live a decent and productive life, and the entire world misses out by not benefitting from their potential.
This is a global crisis—we need to sound the alarm...
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Thanks to the ease of email, sitting down and hand-writing an actual letter has fallen out of style. But we have to admit there’s something truly powerful about putting pen to paper in an effort to change the world. Below you’ll find a list of some of our favorite correspondences and open letters… and one we hope you’ll add your name to, too! 1. Nellie Bly Photo credit: Public domain/Wikimedia Commons “Nellie Bly” was a pioneer of...
Around the world girls like Eva make an impossible choice every day: risk their personal safety to get water, or go without.
This month's Fortune magazine lists the 50 greatest world leaders—and sitting right at number 14 on the list is ONE cofounder Bono! In the profile by Ellen McGirt, Bono talks about AIDS, hunger, global poverty—and how ONE and its members are fighting them all.
On September 26th, you could be one of 60,000 global citizens listening to Pearl Jam, Beyoncé, Coldplay and Ed Sheeran in New York City’s Central Park.
The 2015 Global Citizen Festival is at a SUPER important time for the international development community, as the Global Goals will be announced the day before at the United Nations. As we fight to end extreme poverty by 2030, these goals will help shape the international development agenda and serve as the key targets...
140 characters doesn’t seem like a lot of space to make a statement. It sounds even smaller when nearly 6,000 tweets are sent on Twitter per second. But then there’s this fact: over 300 million active users exist on Twitter. That means every tweet has the potential to reach hundreds, thousands, even millions of people! And when you think of it this way, 140 characters really matter.
Over the next few weeks, we’re going to be using Twitter to ask world...
Dear Mother Earth,
On behalf of the rest of humanity, I’m sorry for what we’ve done to you. We’re destructive, greedy, selfish and, well, just plain nasty.
That being said, I hope you haven’t lost hope in us just yet because we are a new generation about to take the reigns, and I think you’ll dig us.
We are Millennials, and we’re very cool — but I’m sure you already knew that by overhearing the not-so-very-well-known music our hipsters listen to. You’re probably also a fan of the recycled bicycles we take to work that don’t pump poison into you.
Issac Asimov once said, “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” If it is not your desire to live in darkness then please scrub away. It is simple really: assumptions are constant, the world is not. Most of my assumptions of Africa fell apart while I stayed in Kenya.
Talking to your congressman yourself is not out of reach, you just have to know what to do.
By Elliott Stein, ONE member, United Kingdom
Graphic: weknowmemes.com
Times have changed dramatically. We no longer sit in front of the television every evening and watch the news religiously. We don’t wait for each morning to arrive to eat breakfast while reading the newspaper.
Nowadays, the combination of mobile devices and increasingly busy lives mean we digest our news on the go. People turn to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for news as it happens: you could go as far as to call it...