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Nick Seymour
Nick Seymour
stated on January 7, 2017 in an op-ed:
Tuberculosis recently passed "HIV/AIDS as the leading infectious killer globally."  
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By Jon Greenberg • January 11, 2017
Lumos
Lumos
stated on December 19, 2016 in a factsheet:
"An estimated 8 million children worldwide live in orphanages or residential institutions. Shockingly, 80 percent of these children are not orphans."
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By Linda Qiu • January 4, 2017
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on October 11, 2016 in a speech:
Global warming leads to much quicker spread of the Zika virus because the increased temperature, "makes mosquitoes mature faster,  . . . bite more due to having a higher metabolism, and makes the Zika virus inside of them incubate faster."
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By Joseph Cariz • October 28, 2016
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders
stated on October 12, 2016 in a press release:
A World Health Organization report shows "that more people are dying of TB."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 24, 2016
Ertharin Cousin
Ertharin Cousin
stated on September 6, 2016 in a speech transcript on Medium:
"One extra year of schooling for girls reduces infant mortality rates among their children by up to 10 percent."
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By Jon Greenberg • September 15, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 2, 2016 in a press conference at the White House:
Thanks to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, "Vietnam is drafting and presenting unprecedented labor reforms, changing their Constitution to recognize worker organizations in Vietnam for the first time."
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By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy • August 4, 2016
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on July 26, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic national convention:
Says Hillary Clinton "negotiated the first agreement — ever — where China and India officially committed to reduce their emissions."
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By Linda Qiu • July 29, 2016
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 13, 2016 in a speech in San Diego:
"95 percent of the world’s customers are … beyond our shores."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2016
Minka Kelly
Minka Kelly
stated on May 10, 2016 in a post on Instagram:
"By the time you drink your coffee, an elephant is killed for its ivory tusks."
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By Linda Qiu • May 17, 2016
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on April 27, 2016 in a congressional hearing:
Water rates in Manila, Philippines, "were raised up to 845 percent" when a subsidiary of the World Bank became a partial owner.  
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By Jon Greenberg • May 12, 2016
Lee Camp
Lee Camp
stated on April 17, 2016 in an episode of "Redacted Tonight":
"In 2009 … Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents."
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By Linda Qiu • April 21, 2016
ActionAid UK
ActionAid UK
stated on April 7, 2016 in a website post:
"Tax dodging costs developing countries $200 billion every year."  
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By Jon Greenberg • April 19, 2016
Gayle Smith
Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 in a speech on Capitol Hill:
As a sign of "extraordinary progress," "there are half as many (primary-age) children out of school today as there were 15 years ago."
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By Jon Greenberg • March 17, 2016
Emma Watson
Emma Watson
stated on February 24, 2016 in an interview with Gloria Steinem:
"More lives are lost from violence against women, sex-selective abortion, female infanticide, suicide, egregious maternal mortality, and other sex-linked causes than were lost during all of the wars and civil strife of the 20th century."
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By Linda Qiu • March 15, 2016
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
stated on February 29, 2016 in a page on the hospital's website:
The Chris Hani Baragwanath in South Africa is "the world’s third-biggest hospital."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 29, 2016