By: Dylan C. Robertson May 18, 2012 (Chicago) — When asked what aspects of the G8 he’s covering, Hans de Bruijn looks up and pouts. “I’m not really here for that; I’m here for NATO mostly,” said the reporter with the Netherlands Press Association wire service. “For the G8, I’m just filing one general story.” [...]
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By: Kate Bruce-Lockhart May 18, 2012 (Chicago International Media Centre) Continuing in the annual summit tradition, Oxfam has staged its latest installation of the “big heads” protest. Oxfam protesters donned their masks yesterday to pose as G8 leaders in front of the White House. The protesters walked around confusedly, in search of the imagined destination of [...]
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By: Kate Bruce-Lockhart May 18, 2012 (Chicago International Media Centre) In a press release this morning, World Vision responded to President Barack Obama’s speech on food security delivered at the 2012 G8 Summit in Camp David. It called Obama’s new food security initiative a “welcome and significant step in the right direction,” but argued that [...]
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By Kate Bruce-Lockhart May 18,2012 (Chicago International Media Centre) Bread for the World, a faith-based civil society organization, has just issued a press release commending President Barack Obama’s speech at the Camp David Summit on ending hunger and malnutrition. Obama delivered a speech this morning at the Third Annual Symposium on Global Agricultural and Food [...]
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By: Niamh Fitzgerald Camp David (May 18, 2012) — U.S. President Barack Obama opened the 2012 G8 Camp David Summit with an address on the issue of food security, and a commitment to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. This shared commitment between the G8 and African leaders aims to achieve sustainable agricultural [...]
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