Humanitarian Aid

Snobbish Apartheid By the West

THE snubbing of the recent United Nations Food Summit in Rome by the developed world was a sign of global apartheid that is being pursued by the developed world against their developing world counterparts.

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Pakistan: UNHCR launches winter aid package for displaced people in camps

Source: UNHCR As temperatures drop in north-west Pakistan, UNHCR has begun this week the distribution of additional relief supplies to internally displaced people (IDPs) living in camps. This aid will help IDPs to ...

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Cash aid for flood victims is 'under review'

Cowen feeling pressure to announce relief package By RALPH RIEGEL, CONOR KANE and AIDAN O'CONNOR Tuesday November 24 2009 A MULTI-million euro flood relief and humanitarian assistance programme for householders and businesses...

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Do NGOs provide relief or development?

Development agencies cannot hope to bring about lasting change in the communities in which they work. They can only provide short-term relief, argues Karen Treasure Boreholes and basic health or education services do not and...

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Peacekeepers should prepare to leave Darfur - Sudan

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Khartoum's U.N. envoy, rejecting a bleak U.N. assessment of the situation in Sudan's conflict-torn western Darfur region, said on Monday it was time for international peacekeepers to prepare to leave.

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Ethiopia: Oxfam calls for radical shake-up of aid system to break cycle of hunger in Ethiopia

International aid agency Oxfam today (22 October 2009) called for a radical shake-up in the way the world deals with food crises in Ethiopia and beyond. The agency rounded on what it called a “knee-jerk reaction” to food crises...

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UN humanitarian chief says things are changing for better in Sri Lanka

The release of internally displaced people from camps in northern Sri Lanka has been moving at a very fast pace according to the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator. John Holmes, back from a visit to Sri Lanka, says...

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Peacekeepers should prepare to leave Darfur: Sudan

Khartoum's U.N. envoy, rejecting a bleak U.N. assessment of the situation in Sudan's conflict-torn western Darfur region, said on Monday it was time for international peacekeepers to prepare to leave.

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Aid workers in southern Somali town moved to Kenya

Source: Reuters * Aid workers moved to neighbouring Kenya * Relocation will not affect aid delivery - U.N. By Frank Nyakairu NAIROBI, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Aid agencies operating in southern Somalia said on ...

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Troops stocking winter aid for Iraqi residents

Killeen, Texas native, Sgt. Chester Temple, unloads water filters during the stocking of a humanitarian aid warehouse on Camp Taji, Nov. 21. The unit, along with their counterparts from the 37th Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army...

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