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ONE announced that it is launching a recruitment drive for new members as part of the U2 360° world tour. It will use its presence and profile through the tour to raise awareness and let people know about the critical progress being made against extreme poverty and preventable disease in Africa. MORE
More than 100,000 ONE members called on Senators to provide first time clean water and sanitation for the world's poorest people by cosponsoring the Durbin-Corker Water for the World Act of 2009 (S. 624). MORE
Applications and nominations are now being accepted for the 2009 ONE Africa Award, which honors outstanding contributions by Africans who are leading the fight against poverty and preventable disease on the continent. MORE
G7 Finance Ministers arriving today in Lecce, Italy, must urgently deliver a plan showing how they will meet the promises to Africa they made four years ago at the Gleneagles Summit, global advocacy group ONE said today. MORE
Bill Gates, Bob Geldof, Dr Françoise Ndayishimiye, Arunma Oteh and Archbishop Desmond Tutu launch ONE's 2009 DATA Report at a London press conference. The Report finds that some G8 nations made encouraging progress last year towards fulfilling the commitments they made at the 2005 Gleneagles Summit to fight extreme poverty in Africa. But two G8 members - Italy and France - are performing so poorly they are threatening to cause the G8 as a whole to default. MORE
San José City Councilmember Ash Kalra joined Andrew P. Hill High School students, teachers and other members of the grassroots, global anti-poverty organization ONE to honor and celebrate their extraordinary work in raising awareness of global poverty and preventable disease. MORE
On behalf of almost 600 fellow Hawaii ONE members, Hawaii native Mary-Louise Dunigan travelled all the way to Sen. Daniel Inouye's Washington, D.C. office to ask him to support critical programs that provide people with necessary tools to lift themselves out of extreme poverty. MORE
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