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A community organization founded by young people in Nairobi's slums has won the ONE Africa Award, an annual prize given by the global anti-poverty group to honor ground-breaking work by African non-governmental organizations. MORE
Warm words alone won’t fight poverty or climate change. While the hosts can be commended for trying, the G20 collectively have failed to ensure that the resources to help the poorest countries adapt to climate change would be additional to existing development assistance. MORE
Finance Ministers from G20 countries meeting in Scotland this weekend are being urged to keep the world’s poorest high on their agenda as they discuss how to help developing countries adapt to the disastrous impacts of climate change – and contribute to stemming its rise. MORE
Today Gordon Brown announced that the UK’s commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on development assistance will become law under forthcoming legislation.
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The Pittsburgh G20 Summit appears to have made some progress towards reshaping global power structures to make them more representative, said anti poverty campaign group ONE. But media reports of the draft communiqué indicate the G20 still has some way to go before it becomes a truly representative global decision making body. MORE
Two major announcements today take aim at preventable diseases in poor countries MORE
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