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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
WASHINGTON, July 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A number of Oxfam's high
profile ambassadors, including actors Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth and
Kristin Davis, called on G8 leaders to urgently respond to global poverty
challenges, starting with a boost in funds for climate change, the food
crisis and development aid.
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Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The Seattle rock act managed to give a huge donation for the fight against poverty after their charity concert profited about $3 Million.
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ONE (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Yesterday, Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama promoted national service at home and abroad in an effort to renew American diplomacy, asking individual citizens to stand up and “change history’s course.” He addressed an audience at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs: “I am running for President, right now, because of what Dr. King called the fierce urgency [...]
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Food inflation is hitting everyone - even if don't have to pay for food. According to the July 2 "CBS Evening News," part of its "The Other America" series - a title strangely similar to former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' liberal anti-poverty mantra of "Two Americas" - food stamp recipients are being hit by the rising the cost of food. "With food prices climbing, more and more...
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ONE (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
ONE and Keep a Child Alive are hosting screenings of We Are Together, a multi-award winning documentary that follows a children’s singing choir from Agape orphanage in South Africa: The story: Life has not been easy for 12-year old Slindile, her siblings and her friends at the Agape Orphanage in South Africa, where most of the children [...]
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ONE (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Ashley Judd visited Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as an Ambassador with Population Services International’s Five and Alive program in late April. She wrote her experiences in a personal journal. Below is an except from her last day. Day Six: At a heaving market place I visited a tiny box that is [...]
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
G8 failure on food prices, biofuels, and climate change places 1.7 billion people - 25% of the world's population - at risk of hunger, warns anti-poverty agency ActionAid. WASHINGTON, July 2 /PRNewswir...
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Gay.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Taking a cue from President Bush in a play for centrist voters, he says he'd get religious charities more involved in government anti-poverty efforts.
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ONE (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Great news coming from Germany today as the government agreed to increase poverty-focused development assistance by €800 Million ($1.27 billion) in the 2009 budget. This will crease the Development Ministry’s budget by more than 12% and marks the third year running that Germany has substantially increased aid. The budget now heads to parliament for a decision [...]
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ONE (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
CNN will highlight the work of UNICEF in a special program to air this coming Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 8PM and repeated at 11PM EST. This is an excellent program and relates to the CNN Survival Project. You can learn more here. If you are traveling this weekend, set your recorders to [...]
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ONE (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
My name is Willard Musarurwa. I am a craftsmaker from Cape Town, and want to tell you about how Aid to Artisans has changed my life. You can watch my video , “How Does Aid to Artisans Make a Difference?” below. Before meeting Aid to Artisans, I was sinking into deep trenches of desperation. Time [...]
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
The libertarian economics professor writes : "Contrary to the myths we hear about how overpopulation causes poverty, poor health, unemployment, malnutrition and overcrowding, human beings are the most valuable resource and the more of them the better. There is absolutely no relationship between high populations and economic despair. For example, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire,...
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ONE (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Moments ago President Bush appeared at the Rose Garden to speak about his upcoming trip to the G8 Summit in Japan. President Bush spoke of the G8 leaders’ 2005 promises to double development aid by 2010, and said one of his major agenda items at the summit will be to rally our partners to “make [...]
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ONE (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
At past G8 summits, we’ve seen a number of landmark commitments on health ??? from treating and preventing infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS to improving health systems to eradicating Polio. In fact, it was at the G8 Summit in Okinawa, Japan (the last time Japan hosted the G8) that the initial seeds were sown for [...]
