UN News Centre |
Ban urges burden-sharing, solidarity to combat effects of El Niño and mitigate climate change
UN News Centre We must scale up our response and share the burden of climate change more equitably, demonstrating greater solidarity with those in need,” Mr. Ban said, calling on affected governments, donors, civil society, development and humanitarian actors, and … |
TIME |
Donald Trump Misses Meeting With Corporate Donors in Cleveland
TIME But it was understood that each of the companies had either already donated money to his campaign, or would in the future—and most were sponsoring convention-related events in Cleveland, according to three people involved in the council. The group of … |
U.S. News & World Report |
In Research World, Long-Term Injury Care Hard to Come By
U.S. News & World Report In 2014 alone, the foundation’s in-house experts poured $88 million – from 78,000 donors, including corporations, celebrities, Silicon Valley billionaires and via grass-roots fundraising – into an impressive array of clinical trials intended to improve … |
FortuneDonald Trump Misses Meeting With Corporate Donors in ClevelandFortuneConventions are traditionally massive fundraising opportunities for candidates and parties who schmooze donors with concerts, prime convention tickets, booze and plenty of face…
U.S. to make announcement related to Enbridge spillsThomson Reuters Foundation+ End subsidy to fossil, including government clean up of private spills and all harms resulting, that the Market might choose the winners by price signal by the Law of Suppl…
The Intercept |
GOP Platform Calls for Elimination of Almost All Campaign Finance Laws
The Intercept Thanks to Citizens United and related rulings, you can also — if you can afford to — give unlimited amounts to Super PACs that are theoretically uncoordinated with campaigns. Repealing contribution limits on direct donations to candidates would … |
The Intercept |
The Republican Platform’s Surprise Revival of Glass-Steagall Legislation
The Intercept The issues pages of Trump’s presidential website steer clear of anything related to banks or finance. In fact, Trump campaign … Trump would like to paint Clinton as in thrall to big bank donors, and unwilling to break up their firms. Former Clinton … |
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Amid Convention Controversy, Little Known About Donors
Bloomberg BNA No rules currently require pre-convention reporting of contributors to the convention “host committees†—historically the biggest recipients of convention-related gifts. Support for this year’s events in Cleveland and Philadelphia appears to be … |
EU evaluates key results of its international cooperation and development activitiesEU NewsThe report shows that, with the contribution of EU development cooperation, over 4.5 million women of reproductive age and children under 5 benefited from nutrit…
Scroll.in |
Despite several safeguards to prevent the illegal trade of organs, why does it still exist?
Scroll.in India has a very poor organ donation rate with just 0.26 per million as compared to America’s 26, Spain’s 35.3, and Croatia’s 26.5 per million, according to a report released by the Chennai-based Mohan Foundation in association with Delhi’s Parashar … |