Humanitarian Aid

Fewer People May Be Going Hungry, but Extreme Hunger Persists

Lorraine Boissoneault
• January 21, 2013

With the start of a new year, the eradication of hunger remains one of the world’s biggest challenges. Despite decades of aid work and development, overall world hunger remains at a serious level, and 20 countries have alarming or…

Categories: Africa, Asia, Climate Change, Development, Humanitarian Aid, Women

Deep Flaws in UN Response to Sri Lanka Include R2P Failure

Alice Volkov
• December 20, 2012

The United Nation’s internal report on its role during the final stages of the prolonged civil war in Sri Lanka was unusually critical of the Secretariat and highlighted major shortcomings in the UN’s response to the fighting. The report,…

Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Responsibility to Protect, Secretary-General

The Hunger Lines Just Keep Growing in the Sahel

Tanya Bindra
• October 5, 2012

GUIDAN ROUMDJI, Niger — Her food reserves have almost run out, but Tini Kane, 50 years old and widowed three times, must feed all 23 members of her family. Like many other Nigerien farmers, she sold her precious goats…

Categories: Africa, Humanitarian Aid

Treaty to Protect UN Staff Falls Far Short of Backers

Barbara Crossette
• April 4, 2012

In 1994, after deadly civil wars began to pose extreme dangers to both peacekeepers and humanitarian staff members working around the world, the United Nations adopted the 1994 Convention on the Safety of UN and Associated Personnel, which made…

Categories: Humanitarian Aid, UN Employment

GOINGS-ON

Proposed US Foreign Aid Shows Slight Increase

Dulcie Leimbach
• February 24, 2012

In his recently released 2013 budget proposal, President Obama has increased funds for foreign aid to the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development, but the 1.2 percent rise over 2012 figures is still less than…

Categories: GOINGS-ON, Humanitarian Aid, US-UN Relations

GOINGS-ON

Thailand Gets UN Help in Tracking Flood Crisis

Barbara Crossette
• November 8, 2011

For decades, Southeast Asia has been seeking better systems to monitor and deal with natural disasters, a subject that got a lot of renewed attention after the Asian tsunami in the waning days of 2004 caused more than 275,000…

Categories: Asia, GOINGS-ON, Humanitarian Aid

Climate Change, Migrations and Few Welcome Mats

Dulcie Leimbach
• October 28, 2011

Climate change is being linked to such far-flung situations as rising seas that threaten to sink small island nations and drying up vast regions in Africa, which has spurred large upheavals of people, most recently in Somalia. This week,…