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AP: Nobel winner Yunus promotes social business
Aug 13, 2011
The bruising dispute with Bangladesh's government that saw Muhammad Yunus ousted as chief of the Grameen Bank has not diminished the Nobel laureate's enthusiasm for business projects to help the Asian nation's poor. Interview happened 8/12/11 at InterAction Forum 2011.
Huffington Post: Social Business': Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus Promotes New Way To Fight Poverty
Aug 11, 2011
 Article references InterAction's Forum 2011 and one of its keynote speakers -- Muhammad YunusWhile in Washington to speak to a gathering of international development and aid organizations, Yunus met privately with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She has been a longtime champion of his microcredit work and Grameen Bank, which he started in 1983 to make tiny loans to the poor, 97 percent of them women.
NPR: In Somalia's Famine, Aid Groups Race Against Time
Aug 10, 2011
 During the first day of InterAction's 2011 Forum, InterAction was joined by the UN's Valerie Amos and USAID's Don Steinberg at a media roundtable on the Horn of Africa. This clip from NPR quotes all three on the subject.http://www.interaction.org/audio/20110810_atc_12.mp3
Reuters: Aid officials - not the time to cut U.S. food aid
Aug 10, 2011
During the first day of InterAction's 2011 Forum, InterAction was joined by the UN's Valerie Amos and USAID's Don Steinberg at a media roundtable on the Horn of Africa. This clip from Reuters quotes all three on the subject.
Voice of America: US Debt Struggle Puts Middle East Aid Commitments in Question
Aug 08, 2011
When lawmakers in the U.S. Congress began discussing how much foreign aid to give Middle East countries in 2012, their own debt crisis loomed large. Republicans in the House of Representatives proposed big cuts in overall American commitments. Yet the Arab Spring lifted the democratic hopes of millions in the Middle East and has presented Congress with bigger questions about how to invest in the political futures of Egypt, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, for example.
Voice of America: US Debt Struggle Puts Middle East Aid Commitments in Question
Aug 08, 2011
When lawmakers in the U.S. Congress began discussing how much foreign aid to give Middle East countries in 2012, their own debt crisis loomed large. Republicans in the House of Representatives proposed big cuts in overall American commitments. Yet the Arab Spring lifted the democratic hopes of millions in the Middle East and has presented Congress with bigger questions about how to invest in the political futures of Egypt, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, for example.
Yahoo! News: Crisis in Somalia: Why is the famine so severe and aid so difficult? How can you help?
Aug 05, 2011
 InterAction President and CEO Samuel A. Worthington quoted in article.Somalia is experiencing the worst famine the world has witnessed in a generation, the result of the region's worst drought in 60 years. The UN estimates that a quarter of the Somali population is now displaced—some 1.5 million people—and more than 10 million are in immediate need of food assistance or face starvation.
Yahoo! News: Crisis in Somalia: Why is the famine so severe and aid so difficult? How can you help?
Aug 05, 2011
 InterAction President and CEO Samuel A. Worthington quoted in article.Somalia is experiencing the worst famine the world has witnessed in a generation, the result of the region's worst drought in 60 years. The UN estimates that a quarter of the Somali population is now displaced—some 1.5 million people—and more than 10 million are in immediate need of food assistance or face starvation.
Rolling Stone: How the World Failed Haiti
Aug 04, 2011
InterAction President and CEO Sam Worthington is quoted.In March of last year, two months after the devastating earthquake that killed 300,000 Haitians and left more than a million homeless, Sean Penn was faced with a monumental challenge. Penn, who had been spending most of his time in Haiti since the quake, was running a large camp for internally displaced persons in the foothills of a wealthy suburb of Port-au-Prince, on what had been the city's lone golf course. Nearly 60,000 poor and middle-class Haitians, most from Haiti's devastated capital, had migrated here, pouring over the crumbled walls of the exclusive country club, and established a spontaneous and overcrowded city of crude dwellings fashioned from plastic sheeting.
Rolling Stone: How the World Failed Haiti
Aug 04, 2011
 InterAction President and CEO Sam Worthington is quoted.In March of last year, two months after the devastating earthquake that killed 300,000 Haitians and left more than a million homeless, Sean Penn was faced with a monumental challenge. Penn, who had been spending most of his time in Haiti since the quake, was running a large camp for internally displaced persons in the foothills of a wealthy suburb of Port-au-Prince, on what had been the city's lone golf course. Nearly 60,000 poor and middle-class Haitians, most from Haiti's devastated capital, had migrated here, pouring over the crumbled walls of the exclusive country club, and established a spontaneous and overcrowded city of crude dwellings fashioned from plastic sheeting.

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