HUMANITARIAN PILOTS INITIATIVE http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/swi/embed?urn=urn:swi:video:42461012 SEP 21, 2016 – 17:00 A private group of Swiss pilots has founded an NGO to search for migrants’ boats in distress in the Mediterranean. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) The volunteers from the Humanitarian Pilots Initiative claim its easier to spot small boats from the air than it is from […]
OPINION How a Swiss NGO teaches humanitarian law to Syrian rebels By Vony Rambolamanana POLITICS Conflict IN DEPTH: OPINIO SEP 19, 2016 – 12:54 Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters in Jarablus, Syria: Swiss NGO Geneva Call works mainly with Sunni factions of the FSA, a coalition of armed groups affiliated with […]
REPORT Michael Ignatieff, Juliette Keeley, Betsy Ribble, and Keith McCammon Monday, September 12, 2016he full report EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On September 20 at the United Nations in New York, President Obama convenes a Leaders’ Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis. This follows the Secretary-General’s High-Level Summit on Refugees and Migrants the […]
Aug 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – GLADA LAHN The Syria crisis, which has displaced some 11.3 million people, has exposed the cracks in the conventional humanitarian relief system. And for neighbouring countries like Jordan that host the majority of refugees, it is widening pre-existing cracks in public service systems and […]
COLUMNS Rethinking Robin Hood Angus Deaton | Published — Thursday 23 June 2016 International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: Take from the rich and give to the poor. National development agencies, multilateral organizations, and NGOs currently transfer more than $135 billion a year from rich […]
By Suzanna Goussous – Jun 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Family Kitchen volunteers deliver food to areas around the Kingdom, such as Madaba, Um Al Rassas, Salt, Hitteen camp and Zarqa (Photo courtesy of Family Kitchen) AMMAN — Aiming to promote Ramadan values, a group of 120 volunteers is collecting […]
May 29,2016 -JORDAN TIMES Bad news is all around us. The world confronts the possibility of a sexist, racist ignoramus occupying the White House next January. Unreconstructed authoritarians already are in charge in Russia and China. Populists of varying ugliness are winning elections from Poland to the Philippines. And Islamophobia […]
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 […]
May 21, 2016 JORDAN TIMES – JAVIER SOLANA Even amid the chaos and catastrophes caused by war, there are internationally recognised limits on combatants’ behaviour. And yet, recent deliberate attacks on refugee camps and hospitals, in Syria and elsewhere, demonstrate an absolute disdain for basic humanitarian norms. Indeed, […]
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 […]
Business Insider Ben Moshinsky SAUDI ARABIA MILITARY PARADE When British Aerospace Engineering, better known as BAE Systems, announced a bumper set of annual results this week, much of that success was down to the lavish spending of the Saudi Arabian air force. The Gulf state took delivery of £800 million […]
SYRIA CRISIS By swissinfo.ch and agencies FEB 9, 2016 – 10:54 Syrians huddle in a lorry near the Turkish border to protect themselves against the cold on February 6 (Keystone) For three years Switzerland has been dealing directly with the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad concerning the humanitarian situation in […]
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. […]
By Reuters – Feb 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Syrians, some carrying belongings, head towards the Bab Al Salama border crossing with Turkey, in Syria, on Saturday. Thousands of Syrians have rushed towards the Turkish border, fleeing fierce Syrian government offensives and intense Russian air strikes (AP photo) ONCUPINAR, Turkey/BEIRUT […]
Feb 06,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL His Majesty King Abdullah recently issued directives to concerned Royal Palace officials to continue implementing Royal initiatives extending help to underprivileged families, charity societies, orphanages, the elderly and people with disabilities. These most vulnerable groups of people will benefit from the Royal directives, which […]
Source:RNS NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) A Muslim man who shielded Christians after a passenger bus was ambushed by suspected al-Shabab militants is being saluted as a symbol of unity. Salah Farah, a schoolteacher, died Monday […]
By Hana Namrouqa – Jan 20,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A Syrian refugee walks back to his family’s tent after collecting wood to be used for heating, at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, some 90km northeast of Amman, on Wednesday (AP photo by […]
Source: Khaleej Times Shaikh Mohammed says UAE is one of the world’s most generous supporters of international humanitarian causes. The United Nations reached out to the UAE to help generate […]
Source: BBC Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan say they will give away 99% of their shares in the company to good causes as they announce the birth […]
‘It was definitely the perfect way to start our marriage,’ the pair say Ashley Cowburn; for Independent @ashcowburn Monday 23 November 2015 32 comments Samantha Jackson and Farzin Yousef had a […]