Source: Clarion Project By John Goddard The result? The teacher’s guide depicts Canadian society as practicing a “terrorist ideology of hate” against Muslims. The Canadian Red Cross has funded a […]
Sep 29,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Kailash Satyarthi; Nobel Laureate, 2014 I once met a boy working on a cocoa farm whose only dream was someday to taste the rich brown […]
Those we trust to represent us will not take up the battle against injustice these days because they are now too involved in the infliction of this injustice, albeit by proxy Robert Fisk @indyvoices Friday 5 August 2016 Yemen children waving national flags at rally in support of the Houthi rebels on […]
Source: Religion News Service By Martin E. Marty, who is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity […]
Source: NY Times A Column by Nicholas Kristof AMSTERDAM — On April 30, 1941, a Jewish man here in Amsterdam wrote a desperate letter to an American friend, pleading for […]
For Komal Ahmad, CEO of the benefit corporation Copia, excess food wastage is “the world’s dumbest problem.” After an unsuccessful attempt to deliver 500 sandwiches to a nonprofit, she was […]
Source: Aljazeera By Mohsin Ali More than 65,000 have vanished in Syria since 2011, according to The Syrian Network for Human Rights. They are victims of Forced (or Enforced) Disappearance – when a person is abducted, arrested or detained by the state or agents acting for the state, who then deny […]
2016 Theme: One Humanity Every day, humanitarian aid workers stand on the front lines of war and disaster, braving tremendous dangers and difficulties to deliver assistance to those who need […]
Source: Aljazeera By Faras Ghani Karachi, Pakistan – Nargis Latif lay on her hospital bed dying. The doctors had given up on her. Her children and husband were at her side, […]
Following the recent death of the renowned humanitarian Mr Abdul Sattar Edhi in Pakistan, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza […]
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. (Matthew 5:7) Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor “Someone who lets people drown in the Mediterranean […]
Source: Charter of Compassion Website On February 28, 2008 acclaimed scholar and bestselling author Karen Armstrong received the TED Prize and made a wish—to help create, launch, and propagate a […]
Source: The Daily Beast When Elham Salah first began her training to be a psychological counselor, she thought that she would be helping local women cope with the effects of domestic and other gender-based violence. However, after almost three years of working at the Jiyan Foundation—a small group in Iraqi […]
Helping hands (and feet) When humanitarian assistance turns hi-tech By Isobel Leybold-Johnson May 2, 2016 – 14:45 In 2014, the ICRC helped 300,000 people via its physical rehabilitation services and prostheses (cicr) An affordable prosthetic foot for war amputees is the Lausanne-based Humanitarian Tech Hub’s first project. The research and […]
Source: Crux By Nicole Winfield Associated Press April 14, 2016 VATICAN CITY (AP) — When Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, […]
Feb 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Kailash Satyarthi It is a blot on the face of humanity that we have yet to eradicate slavery — of children, no less. Not only does child slavery persist; the number of child slaves, 5.5 million, has remained constant in the last two decades. They […]
Torture Is a Crime Source: Huffington Post By Curt Goering; Executive Director, The Center for Victims of Torture The subject of U.S. policies on torture is back in the news again. With […]
Pope Francis questions Donald Trump’s Christianity Source: BBC The Pope has questioned US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s Christianity over his call to build a border wall with Mexico. Pope […]
Source: Huffington Post By Gaurav Krishnan; Senior at DexterSouthfield School, Boston MA The danger of being ruled by fear is one that is all too present in the modern age. […]
DEVELOPMENT AID By Katy Romy FEB 12, 2016 – 11:00 How should Switzerland be helping developing nations? (Keystone) Switzerland is cutting international development spending, sparking protest from the political left and humanitarian organisations. While Europe is in the throes of a migration crisis, the effectiveness of aid is up for […]