Stories tagged "humanitarian"

This report examines the humanitarian, social and economic consequences of the Barrier on East Jerusalem. Entire families have been divided by the Barrier. Husbands and wives are separated from each other, their children and other relatives.

World Relief is helping thousands of people who are facing what some are calling a humanitarian catastrophe in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. For years now, civil war has devastated the Congo.

During World War Two, many individuals from many countries risked their lives to save various minorities, especially Jews, from the horrors of the Holocaust. This list commemorates 10 of them.

DJOD.org is a vehicle for charities, individuals, and non-profits worldwide to bring awareness and raise monies for their causes. It's the only place in the entire world where you'll find legendary musician Bob Marley's guitar as a charity prize.

Action Blog Day: Poverty - all of these things, need not be... In a world of plenty, where some have only a scant, these things, need not be...

During the food crisis, countries already stepped up their extra-budgetary funds to rescue the aid organisations, but now are faced with the massive cash drain bailing out their own financial institution. Will there be any money left for aid?

Search engine giant Google has taken a humanitarian stance, unveiling a $4.4 trillion plan to lobby for policy change on alternative energy that calls for clean power by 2030. This implies that all energy in the US would come from renewable sources.

The arguments for a bailout to avoid systemic collapse are of course genuine and persuasive, but so are the arguments for aid and against standing by and allowing a child to die every 3 seconds, or a woman to die in childbirth every minute.

Billions of dollars will be wasted unless there is a radical overhaul of the system of giving aid, a report from Care International warns

A humanitarian plane carrying 17 people -- most of them relief workers -- has crashed during a storm in a mountainous region in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said Tuesday.