Press Releases

18 December 2006

Reaching from Capitol Hill to the Internet, ONE announced today that it has tapped Republican strategist Jack Oliver and Yahoo! Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig as co-chairs of ONE’s growing campaign to build a national grassroots constituency to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty.

6 December 2006

Today, ONE members from across the country are delivering over 250,000 letters to Capitol Hill, calling on Congress to help up to 150,000 Africans keep working and escaping the cycle of poverty through renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) “third country fabric provision

24 November 2006

With two weeks until Election Day, ONE announced today that Democrats and Republicans have come together across the political aisle to help fight global AIDS and extreme poverty – posting the new “ONE Vote” PSA on the front pages of both www.DNC.org and www.RNC.org

24 October 2006

ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History launched today a new internet public service announcement bringing together some of the biggest Internet platforms and biggest names in music, movies, sports, politics and religion in a campaign to engage millions of American voters in the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty.

17 October 2006

-Today, ONE joined with the Millennium Campaign to announce that 110,332 Americans came together on Sunday, October 15th to “STAND UP” in the fight against global poverty, part of a national and global official world record for the largest number of people ever to stand up for a cause.

16 August 2006

EDUN, the socially conscious clothing brand created by Ali Hewson, Bono and New York clothing designer Rogan Gregory, has partnered with ONE to launch a new ONE T-shirt made by EDUN at Nordstrom stores and Nordstrom.com ($40 retail). The project will help fight global AIDS and extreme poverty, and bring fair trade and AIDS treatment to factory workers and their families in Lesotho, Africa.

24 July 2006

Today, trade ministers suspended trade talks critical to the outcome of the World Trade Organization Doha Development round, failing to deliver on their promise to change the rules of trade and level the playing field for developing countries and give people the tools needed to trade their way out of poverty.

17 June 2006

Today, the leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) recommitted to the 2005 Gleneagles summit’s comprehensive plan to accelerate development and help save millions of lives in Africa and the world’s poorest countries, but have failed to set the concrete targets necessary to increase effective international assistance and help the world’s poorest countries fight poverty.

16 June 2006

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global Internet brand, and ONE announced today an alliance in the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty with the launch of the revamped ONE.ORG web site

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.