A newcomer’s take on a G8 summit
Friday 27 May 2011 by Kate Redman
It had to happen. Five years working for an NGO and I’ve never been to a G8.
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Our mini-G8 leaders are causing a stir in Rome, where this banner is hanging from our office building.
G8 pledges on Africa – reduce, reuse, recycle?
Tuesday 29 June 2010 by Patrick Watt
This year’s G8 summit is being described as a ‘zero waste’ event, designed to have minimal environmental impact. Yet there’s a concern that this is being taken a bit too literally by some G8 members when it comes to their pledges to the world’s poorest countries.
Niger: Failed promises and inspirational individuals
Monday 28 June 2010 by Rachel Palmer
During the last eight weeks, while I’ve been in Niger, I’ve often been overwhelmed by the scale of the problems people face here. It’s not just the current food crisis and the number of people who are going hungry now but also the future and what this has in store.
The G8 draws to a close
Monday 28 June 2010 by Kathryn Rawe
The G8 summit has now drawn to a close and the Deerhurst resort in Muskoka will be getting back to normal. The world leaders flew back to Toronto by helicopter with Obama and Cameron flying together to start their bilateral meeting. Apparently Cameron and Merkel will be watching the England v Germany World Cup match together tomorrow and the press are invited can’t imagine he’ll look anything other than awkward!
Seeing the wood for the trees in Muskoka
Monday 28 June 2010 by Adrian Lovett
Just got this note from my colleague David Morley, who heads Save the Children in Canada and played a leading role in the movement to get the G8 focused on saving mothers’ and children’s lives at their summit last weekend in Muskoka. Hats off to David. I wanted to share his reflections.
G8 summit: keep the promise
Friday 25 June 2010 by Adrian Lovett
With Nelson Mandela and 20,000 supporters, we launched the Make Poverty History campaign in Trafalgar Square that came to its climax five years ago as the G8 met in Gleneagles, Scotland. The G8 leaders made some big promises. So, five years on, how have they done?
G8 — Right now it’s all rumour and speculation
Friday 25 June 2010 by Kathryn Rawe
Save the Children is waiting to hear what the final communiqué will say before we can judge whether the G8 leaders action will live up to their promises. The official announcement will be made some time between 15.00 and 17.00 on Friday, or late on Sunday, depending on who you ask. Until then we can only respond to leaked versions and rumour.
Fighting poverty in the palaces
Friday 25 June 2010 by Simon Wright
The Pacific Health Summit comes in the middle of many international meetings discussing the MDGs and health. The World Health Assembly, the Women Deliver conference with Countdown to 2015 and the G8 meeting in Canada later this week are all leading up to the UN Summit in September.
The Women Deliver conference – what’s new?
Tuesday 22 June 2010 by Nouria Brikci
The Women Deliver Conference in Washington last week was impressive for many reasons: it had more than 3,000 attendees, a $1.5bn pledge by the Gates Foundation for maternal health, and new evidence was presented by the Countdown Group on progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5.
30,000-strong petition calls for action on child poverty
Monday 21 June 2010 by Ebony Riddell Bamber
30,000 Save the Children supporters want the new government to take urgent action on severe child poverty in the UK, and to stop children and mothers dying from entirely preventable causes in the world’s poorest countries.
