Full Coverage: Aid

30.11.2005 In 2003 President Bush announced a 5-year, $15 billion initiative to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, yet restrictions attached to how those funds may be used are limiting their effectiveness, says Population Action International.

29.11.2005 This holiday season holds huge promise for philanthropic giving. You may have seen the new OneWorld Holiday Gift Guide; now MADRE offers suggestions on how to identify organizations that not only address people's immediate needs, but also work for sustainable social change.

29.11.2005 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka and Indonesia must provide more appropriate land on which to build permanent shelter for survivors of last year's tsunami, aid charity Oxfam says.

29.11.2005 The 2005 Human Development Report paints a bleak picture of the progress made toward those aims six years into the campaign. Among the highlights: The report says the goals for poverty, universal education and child mortality will all be missed in 10 years if current trends continue.

29.11.2005 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 28 (OneWorld) - A widely unnoticed bill that makes access to clean water a central aim of U.S. foreign assistance was approved by the House of Representatives and Senate earlier this month.

27.11.2005 The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives both voted overwhelmingly to make increasing access to safe water and sanitation--in an affordable and equitable way--a major purpose of United States foreign assistance efforts in coming years.

23.11.2005 The Pakistani government has announced an increase in compensation for survivors whose houses were devastated in the 8 October quake. The survivors could now get up to nearly $2,929 for rebuilding their houses, an increase of about $2,511.

23.11.2005 The Taliban has claimed that it has killed the kidnapped Indian driver, Ramankutty Maniappan, who was working with the Indian road constrction organisation - Border Roads Organisation (BRO). The Afghan government and Indian sources say that the fate of the kidnapped driver is still unknown.

22.11.2005 While warmly welcoming Saturday's international donors' conference for Pakistan's recovery from last month's devastating earthquake, a group of United Nations experts warned today that the vast majority of pledges are earmarked for long-term recovery even as operations remain in the critical rescue and assistance phase.

22.11.2005 Eleven months after the tsunami, women--and small grants--are playing key roles in efforts to rebuild. Have a look at the devastation that remains, but don't miss the story of Sareena, whose enterprising spirit shows how lives can be rebuilt--with a little help from around the world.

20.11.2005 Stamp Out Poverty went head-to-head with Goldman Sachs - the financial sectorÂ’s leading investment bank - over the case for a currency transaction tax to help finance development, and says it won a clear victory.

15.11.2005 In New Delhi, India, on 10th November 2005, Action Aid released a citizen’s report entitled Millennium Development Goals ‘as if people matter!’. The report voices the people’s perspective about the state of development, the fulfilment of their basic rights and the services and promises of governments in the context of the Millennium Declaration.

15.11.2005 Military aid is the less recognized arm of the Bush administration's policy approach in Latin America, says Frida Berrigan. While U.S. economic assistance to Latin America is declining, donations of military aid and training are on the rise.

11.11.2005 Pakistani-American professionals and students held a candle light vigil on Tuesday night to put the spotlight on the earthquake that killed nearly 79,000 in Pakistan and over 1,300 in India. Tuesday was significant as it was the first monthly anniversary of the devastating quake that rendered millions homeless in Kashmir. Rahul Kumar reports from a gathering of concerned Pakistani expats in New York.

11.11.2005 Edinburgh-based singer/songwriter John Keenan has recorded a single on behalf of World Vision, in order to raise money for children affected by HIV/Aids.

09.11.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov 9 (OneWorld) - International relief workers issued urgent appeals for money Tuesday as the harsh Himalayan winter threatened to kill untold numbers of people among the three million children, women, and men left homeless by last month's earthquake in Kashmir and Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.

09.11.2005 "It is time to put human needs ahead of narrow military and political calculus," say the Worldwatch Insitute's Michael Renner and Zoë Chafe, warning that India and Pakistan are squandering an opportunity to bring aid to the needy--and peace to the subcontinent.

08.11.2005 In the spotlight after his marathon win in New York City over the weekend, Paul Tergat is using his renown to support the U.N.'s World Food Program, whose school lunch program encouraged him to attend school as a youngster in Kenya.

03.11.2005 Despite a claim by a released rebel that the Lord's Resistance Army is operating a 'shoot to kill' policy against NGOs in retaliation for a UN International Criminal Court indictment of its leader, aid agencies have decided to resume operations in the north, AMREF told OneWorld UK on Thursday. Work was suspended after the killing of two workers.

03.11.2005 "Last week I sat in the back of a land rover that was rushing a critically ill baby to hospital." Caroline Hickson comes face to face with reality in Niger.