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 [...]
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 [...]
Medicins Patent Pool, an NGO dedicated to improving access to essential medications for those affected by HIV/AIDS, was thrilled to have its work recognized in the communique, which had the following statement: “we welcome the Patent Pool Initiative launched by UNITAID in order to facilitate production of affordable generic medicines well-adapted for use in resource-poor [...]
World Vision’s review of the Deauville communique was far from glowing. Echoing the observations of many other civil society groups, World Vision criticized the G8 for failing to make progress at previous summit commitments on development, such as the L’Aquila Food Security Initiative created in 2009. The failure to move forward on food security is [...]
Though Transparency International welcomed the G8′s commitment to fight against corruption in Arab Spring nations, they made it clear that rhetoric without action is unacceptable. Specifically, there must be concrete action to recover stolen assets and further efforts to ensure such the flight of such assets in the future. Further criticism focused on the lack [...]
