{"id":81,"date":"2005-09-17T14:15:50","date_gmt":"2005-09-17T12:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=81"},"modified":"2010-09-21T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T16:37:10","slug":"clinton-commitments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Commitments"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there\u00b4s something unique at the Clinton Global Initiative it is the Commitments<\/a> section of this event. I have never seen anything like this. Throughout the day as sessions start, President Clinton comes to the podium and announces that such and such a person has made a certain commitment to improve the world. These commitments are very specific.
\nFor example, a person commited to fund a program to train truck drivers in Subsaharan Africa to use condoms. It turns out that truck drivers are a leading means of transmission of HIV\/AIDS as they travel, have many different sexual partners and tend to have unprotected sex. As I listen to Clinton tell this story I wonder if they teach the use of condoms as part of the curriculum to get a truck driver\u00b4s license in Subsaharan Africa.
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This is the wall where commitments were being posted. I thought of giving a commitment myself. The most appropriate commitment would have been the Summit on Identifying the Causes and Promoting Steps to Reduce Latin American Poverty that I am working on. During this summit poverty meant Africa. But there\u00b4s still tremendous poverty in Asia and Latin America. Indeed half of the people who speak Spanish and Portuguese are poor. I think that a gathering of business people, NGO\u00b4s and Government to come up with a concrete plan to reduce poverty in Latin America could be very useful and I am working along those lines. But frankly, I felt a bit embarrassed going up on the stage and getting a Clinton diploma over this.<\/p>\n

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