With the start of the G8 Summit today, the
Huffington Post has dedicated an entire webpage to G8 news, including this
article on why accountability is critical to
ensure that the G8 keeps its promises, and 10
second videos from the public on the issues that
merit close attention. ONE interviewed
Ambassador Don Steinberg, current Deputy Administrator for USAID, on global
food security, and has launched the ONE
Street Tweeter to make sure addressing world hunger is a prominent topic at
the G8. The Symposium
on Global Agriculture and Food Security at
the G8 Summit, taking place today, will be live streamed for the
public.
Oxfam America has
filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission for
unlawfully delaying the issuance of a Final Rule implementing a provision of
the Dodd-Frank Act that requires disclosure of payments from oil, gas and
mining companies to the US and foreign governments. As a partner in the Publish What You Pay Coalition,
ONE previously
delivered over 140,000 petition signatures to the SEC urging them to issue
the rule.
The Forum for Agricultural Risk Management in Development
(FARMD) introduced
the World Bank’s internal tool for capturing, organizing, and assisting in the
analysis of geospatial data, GeoSDN, and interviewed GIS Analyst
Ben Stuart on the new tool.
The UN released the first Africa
Human Development Report. Ricardo Fuentes-Nieve, who worked on the report, summarized a few of the key points, while Lawrence Haddad, Director of the Institute of Development
Studies, bemoaned the fact that the
“Empowerment for Justice, Gender Equity and Food for Everyone” chapter came last instead of first.
Taryn Davis is a Communications Intern at Development Gateway.
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