Aid is given regardless of the race, creed, or nationality of the recipients and without adverse distinction of any kind. Aid priorities are calculated on the basis of need alone.Wherever possible, we will base the provision of relief aid upon a thorough assessment of the needs of the disaste...
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- UN agencies and partners continue to deliver humanitarian aid to the crisis-impacted people in Lebanon amid escalating hostilities, Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN chief, said at a daily briefing on Tuesday. On Monday, UN Relief and Works Agency f...
Relief agencies are concerned about the limited surveillance systems in countries with large numbers of vulnerable groups, while the additional burden of COVID-19 could mean that other current outbreaks such as cholera, measles and yellow fever receive less attention. Overcrowding of camps for internal...
“) grounds. It is also possible for the Minister of IRCC to grant H&C grounds on their own initiative. Section 25.1(1) of the IRPA states: Humanitarian and compassionate considerations — Minister’s own initiative 25.1 (1) The Minister may, on the Minister’s own initiative, examine the...
Our DRTs provide timely support in the wake of natural disasters, handling a range of logistics tasks at airports and coordinating the transfer of relief supplies to local relief organizations. In cooperation with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), we ha...
6 June 2014 / Published: 16 June 2014 Abstract: Humanitarian workers often complain that international aid to victims of armed conflicts is more and more militarized because relief organizations are embedded into peacekeeping operations, used as a "force multiplier", or manipulated as an instrument ...
“If we have that specific initiative available [for people with disabilities] during peacetime, we are working with them, we understand them, we are creating a relationship. […] Because when it comes to disaster, and we are making quick decisions, it’s very easy to overlook the need of...
quickly the technology, applications and processes are developing is astounding. One gets the sense of being hurled from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment at exponentially increasing velocity.From the foreword by the Executive Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) at Harvard ...
Boston and Philadelphia. Not content with just giving money, the 2018 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year has consistently matched his financial donations with boots on the ground efforts. His Waterboys initiative has helped more than 225,000 people in East Africa gain access to clean drinking...
As was revealed by the vice chairperson of the International Blue Crescent Relief and Development Foundation in my interview, “education was not a priority for any of the humanitarian aid bodies affiliated with the Turkish State like AFAD (Presidency of Disaster and Emergency Management) or The ...