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Nov 29, 2011
Carolyn Long, InterAction Director of Global Partnerships, is quoted in this article. BUSAN, Nov 29 (IPS) – Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) from around the world attending the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) in this South Korean port city have a rare opportunity to be on equal footing with governments and donors in a global conference.
Nov 28, 2011
Carolyn Long, InterAction's Director of Global Partnerships is quoted. The draft outcome document for the Busan aid effectiveness forum is still under negotiation as African countries push for a 2013 deadline to end practice of linking aid to purchases from companies in donor countries.Civil society groups in Busan back calls from African governments to set deadline to end practice of tied aid.
Nov 22, 2011
Samuel A. Worthington's op-ed on foreign assistance, published on the day of the CNN National Security Debate on 11/22/11.
Nov 05, 2011
InterAction, Oxfam and Save the Children are quoted in the Croatian news publication.
Nov 04, 2011
Sam Worthington quoted. CANNES, France — Organizations representing the world’s poor have had a fitful relationship with the Group of 20 world leaders. They arrive en masse to hold news conferences and usually get a nice mention of food security and health in any communique, but they mostly see their larger aims shoved aside by whatever crisis has hit major banks or currencies.
Nov 04, 2011
Sam Worthington quoted.A proposal for a financial transaction tax to raise new new funding for poor countries failed to win the backing of the G20 although France President Nicolas Sarkozy said he planned to still pursue the idea.
Nov 04, 2011
Sam Worthington quoted. Members ONE and Oxfam were also quoted.Bill Gates has urged politicians to use the proceeds from a financial transaction tax to fight poverty and diseaseEuropean governments planning to impose a tax on financial transactions must use the revenues to help tackle poverty and disease, rather than paying the costs of the Greek bailout, computer billionaire Bill Gates said yesterday.
Nov 04, 2011
Sam Worthington quoted.The president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, had planned to use his leadership of the G20 this year to highlight some of the needs of the developing world. Instead, the focus of G20 summit in Cannes has been on the threat of a Greek default and destabilization of the eurozone.
Nov 04, 2011
Sam Worthington quoted.CANNES, Nov 4 (IPS) - While the Greek bailout and stimulus package dominated discussion among the Group of 20 (G20) major industrialised and emerging market economies at the high-level summit in Cannes, France, this week, the proposed financial transactions tax (FTT) received meagre attention.
Nov 03, 2011
Sam Worthington quoted in news story published by multiple media outlets including Germany's Greenpeace magazine.What are the Greek debt as compared to the tens of thousands dead with famine in the Horn of Africa? What a couple of billion euros aid flows more or less mean in comparison to the likely consequences of a drastic climate change? For international aid organizations and environmentalists, the French G20 is already on its end a bitter disappointment. At least as important issues such as the European sovereign debt crisis remain in their opinion on the track.
