Foreign aid is a bargaining chip with developing countries, securing contracts for British oil, finance, infrastructure and military contractors, often structured via British tax havens, from the City of London Joel Benjamin For Syrian civilians in Aleppo, caught in a brutal civil war since 2011 with relentless shelling, barrel bombs […]
Halt reflects deepening rift between the two countries By Reuters – Nov 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Egyptians gather to buy subsidised sugar and oil from a government truck, after goods shortage in retail stores across the country and after the central bank floated the pound currency, in downtown Cairo, Egypt, […]
Agencies | Published — Tuesday 24 May 2016 Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon prior to their meeting at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, on Monday. (AP) ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday the burden of handling […]
White Helmets, a non-sectarian group of ordinary people, was officially formed in 2014 and now has 3,000 volunteers Women volunteers of the White Helmets, which is a group of unarmed men and women set up in 2014 to fill the voImage Credit: Whitehelmets.org White Helmets volunteers rescue children from a […]
TOM ESSLEMONT | REUTERS Published — Sunday 17 January 2016 LONDON: A $15 billion shortfall in global humanitarian aid could be addressed by tapping into innovative sources of finance, such as smartphone apps, the football industry and wealthy Islamic donors, a United Nations panel of experts said on Sunday. Despite […]
Reuters International DEC 22, 2015 – SWISSINFO.CH By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that a Saudi-led coalition’s military campaign in Yemen appeared to be responsible for a “disproportionate amount” of attacks on civilian areas. Speaking […]
Over 43,000 people have already crossed the Mediterranean this year – a fifty per cent increase on the same time last year OLIVER WRIGHT G7 SUMMIT, BAVARIA Monday 08 June 2015 Millions of pounds in British aid funding could be diverted from existing projects around the world and targeted […]
BEIRUT: For decades, aid groups have assumed they know what’s best for refugees and the poor; a growing body of evidence suggests they’re wrong. Both academic research and practical experience, […]
BILLY HILL THE INDEPENDENT Wednesday 27 August 2014 Why does something that has saved millions of lives abroad remain so unpopular? It’s time to set the record straight Last year […]
Food rationing for refugees planned as $650m pledged to UN remains undelivered Millions of Syrian refugees face food rationing and cutbacks to critical medical programmes because oil-rich Gulf states have […]