Annie Lennox Attends HIV Leaders Meeting, London

March 9th 2010

Annie Lennox joined International Development Minister, Gareth Thomas, and leaders  representing the global HIV community at an emergency Westminster summit called by the UK's Department for International Development to get HIV back on the global health agenda. The summit took place at the House of Lords, London on 9 March 2010. All those in attendance were united by a determination to make real and lasting progress to achieve universal access to comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. Check back later for more information.

Click here to visit The SING Campaign website, A voice for HIV/AIDS women and children founded by Annie Lennox.
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Annie Lennox Joins Woman To Womans Campaign To Mark International Women's Day

March 7th 2010

To honor the resilience of millions of women survivors of war around the world, Women for Women International is hosting a global campaign called Join me on the Bridge on International Women's Day: March 8, 2010.

Annie Lennox will join thousands of women (and men)  at 10am on Monday, March 8 at Victoria Embankment Gardens, where they will walk to the Millennium Bridge. There will be a women’s festival along the embankment and, at 12:00, they will join together on the Millennium Bridge. Along with other bridge events happening around the world on the same day, this event will be filmed and featured in a viral video to be produced and widely released following the campaign.

The event will take place in many cities around the world, click here to find the event closest to you and take part in a global movement that says NO! to war and YES! to peace and hope.

Visit: www.womenforwomen.org to find out more

Keep an eye on BBC, CNN, SKY and newspapers to see coverge of this event. Sky news UK will feature coverage at noon on 08.03.10 which will include an interview with Annie.

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Annie Lennox on HardTalk

March 6th 2010

As reported here in February  Annie Lennox attended the Names Not Numbers symposium at Portmeirion in North Wales 26-28 February 2010. Annie joined leading figures from around the world for what was described as ‘a very British Davos’ for the second annual Editorial Intelligence symposium. Parts of the programme including an interview with Annie were filmed and recorded live for both BBC’s HARDTalk with Stephen Sackur and The Forum, presented by Bridget Kendall.

We can confirm that the HARDTallk interview with Annie Lennox will be broadcast on Thursday 18th March on BBC World News an on Friday 19th March on BBC News Channel. Click here to visit the HARDTalk website.