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2 months ago | 
globalcitizen.org | Victoria MacKinnon |Betty Lincoln
Global Citizen NOW: Rio de Janeiro, an action summit hosted by Global Citizen and the 2024 G20 Presidency, and supported by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, convened over 450 world leaders, innovators, and advocates on the eve of the G20 Summit for one primary reason: to drive urgent action to defeat poverty and address the climate crisis. The top highlight?
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
globalcitizen.org | Victoria MacKinnon |Mara Ranville
Several fast moving wildfires are continuing to tear through Los Angeles where they have destroyed entire neighborhoods in what could be the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. The fires, which cover over 35,000 acres (over 14,000 hectares), have been responsible for at least 10 deaths so far and forced 180,000 people to evacuate.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
globalcitizen.org | Victoria MacKinnon
As we close the chapter on 2024, we want to take a moment to reflect on a truly transformative year. Through campaigns like Global Citizen: NOW and Global Citizen Festival, world leaders, artists, and philanthropists came together across four continents to join our calls for action to demand change. In response, Global Citizens took a record 4.3 million actions over the year, helping to secure historic pledges for equity, the planet, and poverty eradication.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
globalcitizen.org | Victoria MacKinnon
Public spending cuts have become a recurring theme throughout 2024 as governments tighten their budgets under mounting domestic economic and political pressures. Official Development Assistance (ODA), or foreign aid, has consequentially become a prime target on the budgeting chopping block. Even Europe’s usually reliable heavyweight donors are scaling back, signaling a looming funding crisis for global development at a time when need and the very crises ODA aims to address only grow more urgent.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
globalcitizen.org | Victoria MacKinnon |Betty Lincoln
Global Citizen NOW: Rio de Janeiro, an action summit hosted by Global Citizen and the 2024 G20 Presidency, and supported by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, convened over 450 world leaders, innovators, and advocates on the eve of the G20 Summit for one primary reason: to drive urgent action to defeat poverty and address the climate crisis. The top highlight?
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
globalcitizen.org | Victoria MacKinnon
A week away from COP29, the United Nations’ annual climate summit taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, the voices of smallholder farmers must be heard. These farmers produce the majority of Africa’s food yet find themselves on the frontlines of the climate crisis, facing growing challenges that threaten both their livelihoods and global food security.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
globalcitizen.org | Victoria MacKinnon
Over the past two weeks, world leaders gathered for the first time since 2022 in Cali, Colombia, to assess progress on crucial global targets to stop human-caused biodiversity loss and environmental degradation at COP16. The talks ended anticlimactically, with many key issues left unresolved, even though negotiations ran past their Friday deadline into Saturday morning as delegates struggled to reach consensus on core issues even after the summit’s official conclusion.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
globalcitizen.org | Victoria MacKinnon
A quiet transformation is taking root in rural communities across Sierra Leone. In three different districts in the Eastern Province of the country, women farmers enrolled in the Nurturing Opportunities for Women (NOW) program, run by OneVillage Partners, are at the heart of an ambitious initiative working to shift the country’s social and economic future.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
globalcitizen.org | Victoria MacKinnon
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
globalcitizen.org | Khanyi Mlaba |Victoria MacKinnon
The world is not on track to meet the Global Goal of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 and nowhere is that clearer than on the African continent, which faces challenges such as natural disasters, conflict, youth development, and public health threats — to name a few. Although population growth in many regions of the world is stagnating, if current trends continue, more than half of the world’s demographic growth until 2050 will take place in sub-Saharan Africa.
