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• Oxfam & ONE welcome EU initiative to prevent yet another crisis in the Horn of Africa

  14 May 2012

  EU Development Ministers, meeting today in Brussels, gave the green light to SHARE - a new European initiative to boost the prevention of hunger and famine in the Horn of Africa. More

• ONE calls on UN High Level Panel to listen to the voices of the world’s poorest

  10 May 2012

  The UN has announced that Prime Minister David Cameron, President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will co-chair a UN High Level Panel to advise the United Nations on global development beyond 2015.  More

• UK Government’s promise to legislate on international aid missing from the Queen’s Speech

  9 May 2012

  Today the Queen delivered her speech to Parliament setting out the Government’s agenda for the coming session. The Queen repeated the Government’s pledge to give 0.7% of annual national income in international aid from next year. However the Government’s commitment – included in the Coalition Agreement – to introduce legislation to invest this amount in aid annually was not included in the speech.  More

• Transparency campaigners ask Arlene McCarthy MEP to keep up the pressure on big oil

  1 May 2012

  Manchester based campaigners from anti-poverty groups ONE and Tearfund today met with North West Labour MEP Arlene McCarthy to ask her to keep up the pressure on big oil companies.  More

• EU aid must be protected for the poorest says anti-poverty group ONE

  27 April 2012

  Today the House of Commons International Development Committee has published its findings from its review of EU Development Assistance. Adrian Lovett, Europe Executive Director of anti-poverty group ONE said: “This report shows how David Cameron and other European leaders can secure a good deal for the world’s poorest people: first, protect aid in the EU budget negotiations. And second, insist that it is further prioritised towards the countries and people that need it most." More

• UK government recognises ‘sustainable energy for all’ vital for the fight against extreme poverty

  26 April 2012

  At the conclusion of the Clean Energy Ministerial conference, ONE welcomes the government’s support for the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative. More

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