Tag Archives : humanitarian aid

On February 18, the United Nations had the largest fund-raising in its history, garnering $1.44 billion for emergency aid to Haiti in 2010. However, there has been a lot of criticism regarding the failure of coordination of such a humanitarian aid among the UN agencies and NGO recipients of these funds. Huge humanitarian needs remain unmet in spite [...]

During much of June, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai traveled abroad to seek aid for his ailing country. He received mostly warm support from the US and Europe. However, he failed to convince donors to come in with substantial aid to help Zimbabwe’s economy which is in ruins. The reason: aid givers are wary of the overstaying dictator [...]

Pakistan is going through its worst crisis since the separation of refugees from India in 1947, and although the world seems familiar with the camps that spread as rugs since the start of operation against Taleban in April, the vast majority of almost 3 million people who fled live hidden in homes and schools, according to humanitarian aid agencies. They [...]

The International Committee for the Red Cross says that its main problem on the ground is for Gaza civilians to be quickly and safely accessed by the ambulances of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), as well as for these emergency vehicles to safely reach the hospitals within Gaza. The organization also has an acute shortage of fresh blood [...]

Gaza has been declared a humanitarian crisis. According to the Palestinian health ministry, the Israeli offensive has already incurred 595 lives, 195 of which are children. The war has been ongoing over the past 11 days. A most recent assault on a school building said to be housing Hamas militants left at least 30 people dead and 55 injured, according [...]