The World Health Organization ing mothers, children, and the elderly. Al- (WHO) definition of high-risk criteria among though they should provide safety and a pregnant women includes ages under 19 or haven, refugee settings often contribute to over 40, women with no accompanying fam- ily, ...
Social entrepreneur Zafer, for instance, who lives and operates a cultural Lebanese-registered non-governmental organization (NGO) in Sidon, spoke of this increased comfort: "For those who live outside the camp, they are removed from the difficulties of the camp, such as the constant state of...
Speaking at the organization’s annual fundraising dinner in The Stave Room, Elana Frank, founder and CEO, announced an ambitious long-term capital campaign. News Bernstein & Bahr’s Best Bets at AJFF 2025 By Matthew H. Bernstein and Bob Bahr The following is a diverse half-dozen selections...
“It has, from the very beginning, been an organization that has had an interest in managing the problem of the Palestinian refugees rather than solving it.” Not at all–UNRWA has been vociferous in calling for a resolution of the refugee issue that it would put it out of business. In ...
my focus was strengthening the mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) of refugee children and families in the Middle East and East Africa. I chose a Danish non-governmental organization (NGO) in Jordan for my fir...
German Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Christine Anderson last week delivered a speech to the Citizens Initiative in which she excoriated the World Health Organization, calling it a group of "globalitarian misanthropists" who she - and a group of seven other MPs, have vowed to dismantle...
He walked among the many mud-walled, tarpaulin-roofed structures of the camp, past the crowded market, to the warren of humanitarian organization offices. Around 700 refugees were already outside a gate manned by private security guards. A queue snaked out along the razor-wired perimeter ...
Unsettling “Refugees” as a Category | 61Just three months before our interview, and the ensuing mutton banquet, Um Ubaida began working at a Palestinian nongovernmental organization (NGO), tutoring underperforming students from the UNRWA schools. She has substantial experience with NGOs: she receiv...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (2018) stated that all children have the right to access mid-level formal education in the host country during emergencies. Evidence demonstrated that the Bangladesh government failed to provide the Rohingya community with formal refugee...
“retired” FBI agent, turned private investigator, who was hired by the UN as a consultant to this investigation. It is extremely upsetting to me that an FBI agent was involved, not only because of the racist history of that organization, but because ofthe role the FBI played during the ...