Full Coverage: Aid

28.10.2005 The murder of a relief worker in Afghanistan less than a week after the killing of five local aid workers threatens to further undermine the country's stability and its fragile recovery process, says a leading development charity.

28.10.2005 A Boeing 747 flight - donated to Save the Children by Virgin Atlantic - will leave for Pakistan on Monday with tents, tarpaulins and plastic sheeting to provide vital shelter for people left homeless by the 8 October earthquake.

28.10.2005 The Early Day Motion campaign calls on the government to end support for harmful fossil fuel subsidies given through international institutions like the World Bank, and instead pioneer investment in sustainable energy.

27.10.2005 UNITED NATIONS, Oct 27 (OneWorld) - The world's rich nations are under fire from international humanitarian aid groups for failing to provide enough funds for relief activities in northern Pakistan where millions of earthquake survivors are in dire need of help.

25.10.2005 One of the largest earthquakes in South Asia for more than a century has brought death and destruction to areas of north Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. It is estimated that more than 40,000 people have died, and over 2.5 million people are now homeless. Tearfund partners are responding to immediate needs in India and Pakistan, providing shelter, warm clothing, blankets and medical help. An emergency response team, previously based in Quetta, has moved up to the earthquake-affected areas in Pakistan.

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25.10.2005 The European Commission has proposed an additional 80-million-euro package of aid and reconstruction money to earthquake ravaged Pakistan. 30 million euros are for the needs of the survivors and and 50 million euros for rebuilding costs.

24.10.2005 Indian NGO Charkha Development Communication Network has planned a relief programme for 137 worst-affected families in five villages - Dargad, Kamhama, Makama, Palpura and Badran - in the north Indian state of Kashmir. The survivors have lost all their possessions and have nothing to fall back on and the situation is likely to get worse as it has begun snowing in the upper reaches of the region.

24.10.2005 A fortnight after the devastating October 8 temblor hit the Kashmir region, the survivors are huddled down under plastic sheeting, cardboard or rocky overhangs, sheltering as best they can against a mercilessly cold and wet Himalayan winter.

24.10.2005 The German Development Service (DED) has been working in Nepal for more than 35 years, providing personnel and contributing more than US $2.5 million each year to the country, primarily to boost local governance and democratic participation. IRIN conducts an interview with DED director general Jurgen Wilhelm on the situtation in the Himalayan kingdom.

24.10.2005 The UK Government has backed down in the face of demands that it stop using aid money to fund privatisation public relations in the world's second poorest country.

23.10.2005 With exhausted healthcare workers running out of supplies and infectious disease spreading, the Bush administration rejected the offer of 1,500 medical doctors and 37 tons of supplies from Cuba in the days immediately following Hurricane Katrina.

23.10.2005 As the Indian and Pakistani governments continue to taint aid efforts with self interest and calculated power plays, winter descends upon the hardest hit areas in Kashmir, limiting access and stranding survivors without desperately needed supplies, writes Indian political analyst Parful Bidwai.

21.10.2005 Aid agencies have expressed concern over the slow response of the international community to the quake in Pakistan as 10,000 children in remote regions are vulnerable to the winter chill, hunger and disease. UNICEF has urged key donors and countries for more aid.

21.10.2005 Considering helping out with relief efforts? Whether in your local community or on location at a disaster site, learn how to be a responsible and effective volunteer.

20.10.2005 An information-sharing web portal Pakistan Relief and Information Systems for Earthquakes (RISE) was launched to provide information about the 4,000 earthquake-affected villages in the largely rural North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Pakistan administered Kashmir.

20.10.2005 The number of chronically hungry people in the world is on the rise again after decades of progress. The World Food Programme (WFP) says that developed countries continue to spend more money on subsidising farmers than they do to help starving children.

20.10.2005 With 10,000 children in remote earthquake-stricken parts of Pakistan facing possible death within the next few weeks unless helicopters and other vital needs are supplied immediately, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan today called for an "immediate and exceptional escalation" of the global relief effort.

19.10.2005 In outlying areas of Pakistan, there's nowhere left to seek shelter, as all the homes, schools, and other buildings have been destroyed by this month's earthquake. With rains and freezing temperatures setting in, the need for winterized tents has become dire.

17.10.2005 The Centre for Interethnic Tolerance and Refugees (CMTB), announced the start of the campaign to provide assistance to the vulnerable social groups, both in Macedonia and abroad.

17.10.2005 Donations have poured in for the victims of this month's South Asian earthquake, but nowhere near the sums that were given to last year's tsunami victims. A top World Health Organization official has warned that the vast infrastructure damage and remoteness of so many earthquake-affected people make this disaster worse than last year's tsunami.