Humanitarian Aid
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 29, 2017
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When the White House sent its proposed 2018 budget to the United States Congress on May 23, it was apparent that not only would a hawkish, nationalistic focus on military expenditures come at the cost of international aid and…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 16, 2017
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While trying to make the case that the United States remains committed to global health programs, the Trump administration has issued orders to nongovernmental organizations and others working in women’s health that could cripple some of their international operations…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Tino Calabia
- • December 9, 2016
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — One year ago, almost 1 percent of the world’s population, about 65 million people, had been forcibly displaced from their homes. That is a population size that would constitute a nation larger than Britain or would…
- Categories: Development, Humanitarian Aid, Middle East, Migration, Refugees
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 26, 2016
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The images of refugees washing up, living or dying, on the southern shores of Europe leave no humanitarians unmoved. Behind those images and others from Asia, Africa and Latin America are scores of mostly unseen relief and aid workers…
- Categories: Development, Humanitarian Aid
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- Tom Woodcock
- • October 26, 2015
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While the regional coalition led by Saudi Arabia continues its aerial bombardment against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and as ground troops — from Bahrain, Sudan and United Arab Emirates — join the Saudis in the fray, the pain…
- Categories: Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Middle East, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 24, 2015
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Four months after Saudi Arabia pledged to donate $274 million to the United Nations to fully cover an emergency humanitarian appeal for Yemeni civilians desperately hungry for food, medicine and water, the money has not materialized, the UN has…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Middle East
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 3, 2015
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On March 13, a cyclone of historic proportions struck the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu with winds equivalent to those of a Category 5 hurricane. The story of this disaster briefly occupied the international media and then disappeared, perhaps…
- Categories: Asia, Climate Change, Humanitarian Aid, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 14, 2014
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Attempting a second time this year to ease the humanitarian catastrophe in Syria as a result of its three-year civil war and no political solution in sight, the United Nations Security Council has displayed a rare unified front on…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Robert Piocciotto
- • March 5, 2014
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Recent events have confirmed that the United Nations has a deep reservoir of good will worldwide. But its reputation is undermined by the ineffectiveness of its development assistance. UN agencies could improve their performance by implementing effective evaluations. However,…
- Categories: Development, Humanitarian Aid
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 22, 2014
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The United Nations Security Council approved a breakthrough resolution to demand humanitarian-aid access in Syria, after debating the language of the text for at least a week, as Russia lobbied hard for changes to soften wording or delete passages…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Middle East, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 22, 2013
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With the world population now growing faster than predicted only two years ago by the United Nations Population Division, a campaign to make family planning and the wider provision of contraceptives higher priorities in foreign aid policy after years…
- Categories: Africa, Health and Population, Humanitarian Aid, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 26, 2013
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Britain, the world’s major center for investment in the extractive industries, is reviving the international debate on how open management of mining can prevent conflicts. The issue was raised in a Security Council meeting on June 19, after a…
- Categories: Africa, Development, Governance, Humanitarian Aid, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Opinion by Tanya Bindra
- • June 18, 2013
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BAMAKO, Mali — Here in the capital, far from the fight against the Al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants in the north of the country, people are still overwhelmingly supportive of the French military intervention, which began early this year to…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Humanitarian Aid, OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- Helmut Volger
- • May 13, 2013
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BERLIN — The fight against hunger became a primary goal of the United Nations system early on. In 1943, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt convened an international conference that reached agreement on the founding of the Food…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, UN Agencies
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- Opinion by Thomas G. Weiss
- • March 30, 2013
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“Humanitarian” and “business” are juxtaposed in the title of my new book, “Humanitarian Business,” for two reasons: provocation and accuracy. It jars those who idealize the humanitarian enterprise because the adjective has uncontested positive connotations while the noun is…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, OPINIONS
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