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Dec 10, 2024 | 
technewstube.com | David Miliband
The opportunity for artificial intelligence to actually do some good has arrived—if it can be redirected toward where it’s needed most.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
wired.com | David Miliband
For many of the people served by the humanitarian sector, 2024 has been the worst of times. The most recent UN estimates of those forced to flee violence and disaster is a record of 120 million, a figure that has doubled in the past decade. The broader figure of those in humanitarian need, 300 million people, has been swelled by increasingly violent conflict and growing impacts of the climate crisis.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
politico.eu | David Miliband
David Miliband is the president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s aspiration for a “geopolitical Commission” speaks to the modern era. The world is more connected now than ever before, with increasing global risks from health pandemics to climate change and nuclear proliferation.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Ed Cumming |David Miliband
The islands’ pristine reef is home to a dozen species of shark, including hammerheads and whale sharks Credit: Reinhard Dirscherl When Captain Robert Moresby sailed through the Chagos Islands between 1834 and 1837, to conduct the first survey of the archipelago by a British explorer, he was struck by the atoll’s remarkable natural beauty. This was a land of limpid lagoons, teeming with turtles, fish and “singular submarine terraces” – extensive coral reefs – which were treacherous to...
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Mary Robinson |Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf |Austin Demby |David Miliband |Peter Sands |Anil Soni | +18 more
Mary Robinson, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Austin Demby, David Miliband, Peter Sands, Anil Soni, Nikolaj Gilbert, Martin Edlund, Toyin Saraki, Pascal Lamy, Naveen Rao, Luis Pizarro, Jennifer Lotito, Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Agnes Soucat, Jack Leslie, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Omnia El Omrani, Nathalie Delapalme, Yacine Diop Djibo, Marianne Comparet, Temie Giwa-Tubosun, Sabine Bolonhini, Vanina Laurent-Ledru Updated Mon, Sep 23, 2024, 8:51 AM 3 min read To those with the power to prevent lives being lost...
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
independent.co.uk | David Miliband
There are many areas where Britain’s new government has the opportunity for a fresh start. There are few more striking than in the field of international development. Where the previous government was known for what it demolished (the world-leading Department for International Development), the new government can build. And nowhere is that more necessary than in the linked problems of conflict, climate and poverty.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Patrick Sawer |John Redwood |David Miliband
Stephen Twigg (left) said he tried to keep a straight face so as not to give result away Credit: Kevin Lamarque/REUTERS The general election is predicted to see a string of Tory big beasts lose their seats in a wave of “Portillo moments”.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Amy Gibbons |David Miliband
16 June 2024 • 9:02pm David Miliband, pictured campaigning alongside Callum Anderson in Newton Leys in Bletchley David Miliband has been pictured campaigning for Labour in a marginal Tory seat, in a move that will prompt speculation about a future role in the party. In a video promoting Labour’s candidate for Lincoln, Hamish Falconer, Mr Miliband described the constituency as “absolutely critical” in the race for Downing Street. The incumbent is Tory candidate Karl McCartney, who won a small...
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May 2, 2024 | 
en.majalla.com | David Miliband
It’s time for the World Bank to break with tradition last update on 02 May 2024 The spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have little of the drama of peace negotiations. They are often dominated by technical and technocratic questions concerning the intricacies of international finance.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
thenationalnews.com | David Miliband
The ongoing violence in Gaza, including Israeli bombardment and blockade, has led to catastrophic humanitarian suffering for more than two million Palestinians – half of them children – who are now without shelter, clean water, food and vital medical services. Thousands of children are orphaned, unaccompanied or separated from their families, and many have suffered life-altering physical injuries from conflict, including traumatic amputations.
