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James Rockall
James Rockall
stated on May 9, 2017 a tweet
"More (people) die from indoor air pollution than from malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB combined."
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By Smitha Rajan • May 18, 2017
Matt Damon
Matt Damon
stated on April 20, 2017 a discussion with the president of the World Bank
Poor people pay "in some cases, up to 25 percent of (their) income for water."
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By Jon Greenberg • May 1, 2017
Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer
stated on March 21, 2017 a press conference
"Global food demand is expected to increase by 50 to 97 percent by 2050."
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By Gabrielle Healy • March 30, 2017
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on March 1, 2017 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press Daily"
"USAID put $8 billion up and attracted more than $45 billion in a public-private partnership called Power Africa."
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By Jon Greenberg • March 21, 2017
Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson
stated on February 17, 2017 comments at the Munich Security Conference
Global poverty is down to "less than 10% today from 37% in 1990."
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March 1, 2017
Bob Corker
Bob Corker
stated on February 15, 2017 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
"Today, 27 million people .. are enslaved."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2017
Danielle Nierenberg
Danielle Nierenberg
stated on January 9, 2017 a tweet
"Tanzania farmers face 12 years in prison for trading seeds thanks to foreign aid."
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By Linda Qiu • February 10, 2017
Jeanne Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen
stated on January 24, 2017 a Senate floor speech
Says Donald Trump's abortion rule "puts at risk 15 times more funding and millions more women and families ... than previous similar policies by Republican presidents."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 1, 2017
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on January 18, 2017 a Senate confirmation hearing
"Some countries are contributing (peacekeeping) troops because they're making money off of them."  
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By Jon Greenberg • January 24, 2017
Brahma Chellaney
Brahma Chellaney
stated on December 28, 2016 a website op-ed
"Asia ... has less freshwater per capita than any other continent, except Antarctica."  
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By Jon Greenberg • January 6, 2017
Foodmentum
Foodmentum
stated on October 10, 2016 a tweet
"Europe and U.S. households waste 15 times more food than a person in Africa."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 27, 2016
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on October 16, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"
"In exchange for five minutes with Bill Clinton, the government of Qatar was going to give $1 million to the Clinton Foundation."
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By Linda Qiu • October 16, 2016
Oxfam America
Oxfam America
stated on October 5, 2016 a tweet
"The world's 62 richest people own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion poorest."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 7, 2016
Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau
stated on August 25, 2016 a letter
Young women, "account for a shocking 74% of all new HIV infections among adolescents in Africa."
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By Joseph Cariz • September 7, 2016
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on July 26, 2016 a post on Medium
Says Hillary Clinton tripled the number of people with AIDS whose "lives are being saved .. and it did not cost you any more money."
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By Jon Greenberg • August 10, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 2, 2016 at the White House
Because of the Trans-Pacific Partnership "we’ve got a country like Malaysia taking really serious efforts to crack down on human trafficking."  
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By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy • August 5, 2016
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders
stated on July 21, 2016 a press release
Trade deals threaten "India’s role as the pharmacy of the developing world" for new HIV medicines.
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By Jon Greenberg • August 3, 2016
UN's UNICEF
UN's UNICEF
stated on July 6, 2016 an article on Medium
In South Sudan, "more teenage girls die in childbirth than finish high school."
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By Jon Greenberg • July 25, 2016
Morten Jerven
Morten Jerven
stated on June 29, 2016 an article
For 21 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, "we simply do not have data to say anything about trends in poverty."  
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By Jon Greenberg • July 7, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on June 26, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"
Says British voters "under 50, especially millennials, overwhelmingly voted to stay," in the European Union. "It was older voters who voted to leave."
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By Lauren Carroll • June 26, 2016
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