Full Coverage: Aid

30.09.2004 Tens of thousands of weary storm survivors are being deprived of life-saving food and water supplies as the government fails to disarm gangs holding up aid convoys.

29.09.2004 Thailand has come forward to provide anti-retroviral drugs and condoms to Myanmar to save migrant workers from HIV/AIDS as the first part of a three-year commitment to support Myanmar's health facilities.

29.09.2004 Thailand has come forward to provide anti-retroviral drugs and condoms to Myanmar to save migrant workers from HIV/AIDS as the first part of a three years commitment to assist the health facilities of its neighbour country.

29.09.2004

© Haiti Support Group

With the death toll still rising from the effects of Hurricane Jeanne, the latest in a long line of natural and man-made disasters that hit Haiti this year, the U.S relief agency CARE is calling for long term international engagement to put the island country on the path of stability.

29.09.2004 Join NetAid and CARE relief effort in Darfur by sending Sudan Action E-cards. For every five cards sent, $1 will be allocated from the NetAid World Schoolhouse Fund to finance CAREÂ’s relief work which includes, distribution of UNICEF school-in-a-box kit to refugee children and teachers.

28.09.2004

© International Committee of the Red Cross

Ten years ago, the integrity of humanitarian work was threatened by a sudden rise in the number of non-governmental organizations with questionable credentials and ethics. Against the background of the confusion that led to this development and, to curb donor fatigue, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies drafted the Code of Conduct which laid down standard of behavior and operations for non-governmental organizations.

27.09.2004 WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 27 (OneWorld) - Britain's announcement Sunday that it will pay off ten percent of billions of dollars of debt owed to international financial institutions (IFI) by the world's poorest nations is fuelling the hopes of activists worldwide that a comprehensive debt cancellation accord may be concluded on Friday this week.

27.09.2004 The Legal teams of Kontra and Iskorak associations invites you to the promotion of the LGBT Manual for Use of Anti-Discrimination Provisions and Legislation in Croatia. The promotional event will take place at the M.A.M.A. Art Net Club, on September 29, 2004, at 11:00 hours.

27.09.2004 The Supreme Court of India has asked the union as well as the state governments to take preemptive measures in schools so that a tragedy like the one in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, which claimed the lives of 90 children, does not reoccur.

27.09.2004 ActionAid India has launched a series of cards on child rights - ‘Emotions’, to mobilise funds for marginalised children. Renowned artiste CD Jain has painted the cards.

24.09.2004 US women who had lost their husbands in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 have joined together to help out Afghan women.

24.09.2004 People born with cleft lips or cleft palates have been operated on, for free, under ‘Operation Muskaan,’ a project taken up by Indian giant Tata Steel.

23.09.2004 An Amnesty International delegation headed by its Secretary General Irene Khan visited Darfur from 14-21 September 2004 to gather information, assess the human rights aspects of the crisis and press the Government of Sudan to take action. Click through to listen to their statements and testimonies....

23.09.2004 The Bush administration has failed to realize the hopes and dreams of women and girls in much of post-Taliban Afghanistan, according to several human and women's rights groups who warned Wednesday that the time to redress the situation is fast running out.

22.09.2004 The International Development Association, an arm of the World Bank has provided a US$53 million credit to the Government of Sri Lanka with 40 years maturity and a ten-year grace period for an ambitious ICT project.

22.09.2004

Afghan women and children refugees © ACNUR-España

There are serious concerns about the food situation in the central region of Afghanistan because of the meager harvest this year after a winter of little snow and no rain. Recent evaluation by the organization Action Against Hunger estimates that the food supply in the region will last only four more months.

20.09.2004 Plans by the World Bank to relax its environmental and social requirements when lending money to the private sector must be halted, Friends of the Earth and War on Want demanded today. 120 environment, development and indigenous groups have also written to the World Bank opposing the proposed changes, the details of which were unveiled on Friday. The groups are also unhappy about the consultation process and are threatening to boycott it unless it is changed.

20.09.2004 Though FAO estimates that $100 million is required to control locust-infested 4 million hectares of land, the FAO has received only $4 million out of $24 million promised by the donor countries.

15.09.2004 US Government, through its Aid and Development Agency (USAID), announced the start of a programme which will ensure a better respect of justice in B&H, through application of administrative Law.

15.09.2004 CAFOD has criticised the US government for suggesting that new aid to the worldÂ’s poorest countries should be used to cancel their debt.