Throughout history, protest songs have inspired and celebrated social change. ONE’s agit8 project harnesses the power of protest songs to inspire a new generation to join the protest of our lifetime: extreme poverty.
Listen to Bob Marley’s ‘Redemption Song’ and learn about the movement that abolished slavery.
Photo used under Creative Commons: Flickr/National Archives
Old pirates, yes, they rob I I, and 9-12 million Africans were robbed of our freedom and sent to the Americas as slaves
Sold I to the merchant ships from the...
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If you received a second chance at life, what would become precious to you?
This is a question that UNAIDS asked seven people from across Africa who are alive thanks to antiretroviral treatment.
At ONE we were thrilled to read that today, more than 7 million people across Africa have access to lifesaving HIV treatment. And we also loved reading these seven personal stories that were profiled in last week’s UNAIDS Update on HIV/AIDS in Africa.
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Our campaign to start a global food revolution and put nutrition firmly on the agenda of world leaders is really picking up speed.
An amazing 266,000 people have added their voice so far, and with leaders meeting for a nutrition summit in just a few weeks, they will have to start listening.
Our infographic tells the story of how malnutrition is affecting all of us, no matter where we live.
Please share it and if you haven’t already, add your name...
This week is Children’s Book Week which aims to instill a lifelong love of reading in children.
Our US intern Brittany Walters has tracked down six great books that tackle serious issues like HIV and globalisation, which can help young people develop an understanding of the world around them through storytelling. You can buy them all online too.
Little Feet, Big Steps by Brit Sharon
A coming of age story about Gabby, a young girl who signs up for an AIDS Walk in her city. She...
Our guest blogger today is the MTV Africa VJ, singer and activist from Tanzania, Vanessa Mdee. Writing as an ambassador for the GAVI Alliance, her post celebrates the recent news that the HPV vaccine to protect women and girls from cervical cancer is set to drop in price for 50 of the world’s poorest countries.
I’m trying to think of the first time my mother had ‘The Talk’ (yes the birds and the bees talk) with me. The talk that...
Photo: Centres for Disease Control
Today is World Malaria Day and we’re asking ONE members to join the global movement to eradicate it. This deadly but preventable disease, spread by mosquitoes, causes 660,000 deaths a year – 90% of them in Africa.
Thanks to political will and sustained investment, together the world has saved 1 million lives in just a decade. And 50 countries are on track to reduce malaria by 75% by 2015.
So how can you get involved? We’ve made...
This guest post is by journalist Abby Higgins, in partnership with The Seattle Globalist. It’s the fourth in a five-part series which reveals the economically complex and culturally rich life of urban slums, and challenges our perceptions of what life is like for the one billion people around the world that live in them.
Unofficial housing being built by residents within Kibera. Photo: Abby Higgins
Mildred Lunani knew that if she stayed in her village in Western Kenya she could pretty much count on...
Jamie Gentille, an HIV/AIDS advocate who works with organizations like ONE and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, shares her experience growing up HIV-positive in the US.
When I was a kid, my life was a secret. I couldn’t tell my friends that I contracted HIV from a blood transfusion during open-heart surgery when I was three. I couldn’t tell my teachers why I missed so much school for medical appointments. That information stayed within the four walls of my house,...
Princess Adeyeo is from Monrovia, Liberia and is HIV positive. But thanks to funding from the Global Fund she was able to give birth to a healthy HIV-free baby boy. Photo: Morgana Wingward
15 Instagram buy-outs; 384 Lionel Messis; 1 London Olympics; or 30 million iPads. These are just a few of the things you could have purchased if you had a spare $15 billion burning a hole in your pocket recently (and really, don’t we all?). But yesterday, the...
Our guest blogger today is Justine Lucas, U.S. Campaigns Manager at the Global Poverty Project.
Over a billion people on this planet live in extreme poverty. Yet, for many of us, extreme poverty is a fairly abstract, intangible issue. We feel it is an injustice. We know it is intolerable. We fight to change this reality. But we are working to eliminate something we do not have the access or perspective to smell, taste, feel or with which to have...