Putting the world's poor on the G8 agenda

Published January 20, 2010

Crises have a way of uniting NGOs in a single cause. Usually it's a major disaster such as the 2004 tsunami that left millions homeless or a bloody civil war that kills and displaces hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians.

But our organizations are coming together this year for two reasons. Our Group of Seven is combining forces because of an ongoing global emergency that is needlessly killing millions of mothers and their...