Hospitality gives way to hostility for migrants to Greece
Arab News Monday . March 09, 2020 Turkey announced earlier this month that it would no longer prevent migrants and refugees from crossing over to EU countries. (AFP) Short […]
Refugee aid groups attacked as tensions rock Greek island
By AFP – Mar 03,2020 -JORDAN TIMES LESBOS ISLAND, Greece — Several aid groups on Greece’s Lesbos said they were suspending work with refugees and evacuating staff on Tuesday in […]
Why more women should take up humanitarian work in Middle East and North Africa
Jennifer Bell June 11, 2019 MENA region has big gap between demand and availability of female volunteers Arab women’s familiarity with culture and languages of region could make a big […]
Why NGOs in Pakistan are at the brink of extinction
Tahir Mehdi Updated Nov 19, 2018 Composition by Reema Siddiqui In strictly legal terms, there is no ban on the operations of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Pakistan. Yet, in the […]
Letter from Africa: In defence of aid workers’ lives of luxury
12 March 2018 Charities’ sexual misconduct scandal Image copyrightEPAImage captionAid workers have been under intense scrutiny since revelations emerged about Oxfam in Haiti In our series of letters from African […]
Philanthropy Bets Big on Sustainable Development Goals
An international roster of donors has dispersed billions of dollars since 2000 to address social issues targeted by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Their efforts highlight four ways that big bets can achieve big social change. By Kim Ogden, Sridhar Prasad & Roger Thompson Sep. 18, 2018 The United […]
Meet Greece’s Guardian Angel for Refugees
By Stephen Starr Source Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo Why you should care Because thousands of refugees are still stuck on Greece’s isolated islands. The sound of screaming children woke Pothiti “Toula” […]
Providing better conditions to Rohingyas top priority for Turkish NGOs
ŞEYMA NAZLI GÜRBÜZ @SeymNazli Cox Bazar A Rohingya woman with her child at the Kutupalong camp, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, March 25. Turkish NGOs operating in Cox Bazar, Bangladesh are […]
Hungary’s Fidesz signals swift NGO crackdown after Orban victory
Reuters International This content was published on April 9, 2018 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses the supporters after the announcement of the partial results of parliamentary election in […]
Inside Geneva: Aid agencies in the eye of the storm
By Imogen Foulkes This content was published on February 19, 2018 In Geneva, many UN aid agencies use UK-based Oxfam – recently embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal – as […]
Religious conversions: Are Swiss-funded Christian NGOs unwelcome in India?
By Anand Chandrasekhar This content was published on January 28, 2018 Hundreds of Christians protested in Delhi when a Catholic church was set on fire in 2014 just after […]
Punishing the messenger: Israel’s war on NGOs takes a worrying turn
AUG. 24, 2016 Israeli, Palestinian, and foreign activists march to protest the demolition of the Palestinian village of Susiya in July 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader, File) By: Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, author and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: […]
Swiss foreign minister says the country should do more
HUMANITARIAN AID MAY 23, 2016 – 14:12 Currently a record 125 million people worldwide need help to survive, according to UN figures. (Keystone) Switzerland is not doing enough to combat suffering in the world, says Swiss foreign minister Didier Burkhalter. The country would have liked to host the UN’s first World […]
Leaders try to fix ailing aid system in Turkey
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 […]
Bakers, teachers, painters line up to save lives in Syria
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 […]
Saudi charities face funding crisis over terror fears
JEDDAH: KHADIJA HABEEB ARABNEWS Friday 24 May 2013 Credible Saudi charities are facing a funding crisis because of recent measures aimed at clamping down on terrorists using charities as fronts to raise funds and launder money. A number of charity workers here are now concerned that their work in the […]
A quotation from Bill Gates (on his humanitarian activities)
“The point is not for the giver to have a good feeling, but for the people we’re trying to help to have a good feeling.” Quotation from Bill Gates, Melinda […]
The CIA crossed a red line to find Osama bin Laden
By David Ignatius The Daily Star, Lebanon As an intelligence operation, it must have seemed like pure genius: recruit a Pakistani doctor to collect blood samples that could identify Osama bin Laden’s family, under cover of an ongoing vaccination program. But as an ethical matter, it was something else. The […]
Saudi Arabia: Expert says most charity societies not transparent
By DAMMAM: ARAB NEWS Nearly 90 percent of charity organizations in the Kingdom are not transparent and they have no financial controllers, according to an expert in charity work. Abdul Wahab Noor Wali, professor at King Abdul Aziz University and former assistant secretary-general of World Assembly of Muslim Youth, also […]
Egypt PM says US threats to cut aid will not work
Military deploys troops to reinforce police JORDAN TIMES AP | Feb 09,2012 | 23:42 CAIRO — Egypt refused to back down Wednesday in a dispute with the US over Cairo’s […]
