Estimated 10 million infected people without treatment in the developing world, making it one of 2009's Top 10 humanitarian crises, according to Doctors Without Borders. Other crises that made the list released...
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After the recent spate of attacks and heightened security concerns the UN announced its decision to temporarily relocate 600 members of its international foreign staff based in Afghanistan. The international body...
Floods have devastated Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and bordering districts of Maharashtra. With millions losing their homes and families many government and non-government organizations have...
In 2006 my daughter, Aimee Heckel, traveled to Uganda to visit a refugee camp as a journalist on assignment. She wrote a series on the life of refugees. My life changed. Education was a problem in the camp so I...
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The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has again asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to not condone the human right abuses committed by the Sri Lankan government by providing the funding. The Sri Lankan govenrment...
Robert Templer, Asia program director of the International Crisis Group called government of Sri Lanka to alter course, provide a clear timetable to resettle the IDPs, and release the doctors. An estimated...
Sri Lankan government trying to get millions of pounds of humanitarian aid by imposing a 0.9% tax on all the funding for aid groups. Although this was unveiled in 2006, it was not enforced immediately. Now, the...
A twelve year sentence of hard labor was handed down to US journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee in North Korea on Monday. " North Korea on Monday sentenced two American journalists to 12 years of hard labor in...
By Charles Haviland BBC News, Colomb group of doctors who worked in Sri Lanka's rebel-held war zone are being held on suspicion of collaborating with Tamil...
A report "Banning Cluster Munitions: Government Policy and Practice" released jointly by Human Rights Watch, Landmine Action and Landmine Monitor points out that 96 signatories to the Convention on...
The only question now is, will LTTE leaders flee overseas, fight to the end, commit suicide, or surrender." Mahinda Rajapakse said he would return home as "a leader of a nation that crushed terrorism". ...
Hon. Mahinda Rajapakse, the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and the Commander in chief of the armed forces has stated that he would come home a country devoid of terrorism. " The...
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UN Security Council, after it's first formal session on the situation in Sri Lanka has come down heavily on the LTTE. Furthermore, it has acknowledged the legitimate right of GoSL to combat terrorism.The UNSC has...
" LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- The last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 is getting a hand from Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The "Titanic" stars, along with director James Cameron, have contributed...