President Clinton describes how we all can make a difference in the lives of others, leading us through the broad spectrum of CGI's efforts to enable and affect change. From the global leaders and CEOs of the Annual Meeting to the college students and future leaders of CGI U, CGI seeks to empower every citizen with the ability to take substantive action against the world's most pressing problems.
The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)
is a nonpartisan catalyst for action,
bringing global leaders together to
address the world's most pressing
challenges. Each CGI member makes a
commitment, large or small, to take
action.
Over 20 million children in conflict and post-conflict areas are out of school. Watch Angelina Jolie, UNICEF Executive Director Anne Veneman, and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres tell how education is a human right, and that investment in basic education can help to bring health, freedom, and stability to some of the world's most tumultuous regions.
During the Clinton Global Initiative Annual meeting in 2006, Archbishop Desmond Tutu introduces the phrase Ubuntu and former President Bill Clinton expands upon the meaning and significance to all of us.
Through CGI, Vital Voices has committed to fight human trafficking in Asia by advancing women's rights in the private sector. By engaging prominent businesses to adopt anti-trafficking rules and practices, they are leveraging the influence of the business community and creating alliances with government and NGOs, all toward ending one of humanity's worst scourges.
Bill Clinton introduces MyCommitment.org, a new initiative of the Clinton Foundation, which aims to provide all people -- regardless of age, income or location -- with the resources to take action and make a real change in their communities and around the world. Visit MyCommitment.org to make your commitment today.
President Clinton delivers the keynote address at the International AIDS Conference on August 4th, 2008, the culmination of a week of travel visiting Clinton Foundation projects in Africa.
More many of us reap the benefits of the global economy, more than half the world is left behind. Watch Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus, UAE Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Mohammed Al Gregawi, Ashoka founder and CEO William Drayton, and Citi Director Robert Rubin discuss successful models for sustainable development, and why economic inclusiveness is a universal priority.
Through a CGI member commitment, Doc To Dock has teamed up with Medicare to move medical supplies from where they are most abundant to where they are most in need. Watch how surplus supplies that would have otherwise been discarded, are instead transported to the developing world, converting surplus into survival.
Hurricane Katrina visited unprecedented devastation upon New Orleans, Louisiana and other parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast. Through a CGI commitment, a diverse group of partners are rebuilding and revitalizing the neighborhood of Broadmoor?a neighborhood once slated for demolition.
Brad Pitt, Florida Governor Charles Crist, Cool Globes founder Wendy Abrams and Evangelical Environmental Network President & CEO Jim Ball move beyond the climate change debate to spur action to counter it. At the lunch, Pitt announced a funding commitment to help rebuild New Orleans using green materials and technology.
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