UNICEF admits it is 'broke' as funds dry up for Syrian refugees
Posted by: arkar
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-04-06 16:28:45 -0700 | humanitarian-news
With the civil war in Syria having no end in sight, relief agencies providing support and aid for the millions affected by the conflict are said to be at the breaking point, with one United Nations agency today saying that...
Damascus blocking food aid to 1 million hungry Syrians, says UN Food Agency
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Nina Rai
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-01-13 09:36:39 -0800 | humanitarian-news
Report By: Nina Rai Geneva, Jan. 8, 2013 An estimated 1 million Syrians, most of them in conflict zones, are in desperate need of food but cannot be reached due to government restrictions placed on aid distribution, the United Nations...
Syria’s Assad welcomes humanitarian access in 4 hardest-hit provinces
Posted by: JeniferLamug
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2012-06-08 12:14:13 -0700 | humanitarian-news
The Syrian government reportedly agreed to receive humanitarian help by welcoming aid workers in four of its stricken provinces: Daraa, Deir el-Zour, Homs and Idlib, where more than one million people are in need of aid. The Associated Press is...
66-year-old Swiss Lady Pastor gives birth to twins (Video)
Posted by: Nina Rai
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2012-07-27 17:02:34 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Report By: Nina Rai Geneva, 05 March, 2012 In an astounding feat, a Sexagenarian Swiss pastor has become the oldest known woman to have delivered a pair of twins in Switzerland. Martin Vincenz, a spokesman for the cantonal hospital in...
UNICEF alerts '400 dead children' in Syria
Posted by: CATALINA
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2012-07-27 05:11:20 -0700 | humanitarian-news
UNICEF alerts '400 dead children' in Syria At least 400 children, according to UNICEF, they have died in Syria in the last 11 months, victims of the terrible confrontations that are taken end up in this country. This told it...
Angelina Jolie calls for renewed efforts to save lives in the Horn of Africa
Posted by: rsa76
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2012-03-31 14:40:20 -0700 | humanitarian-news
GENEVA - The Goodwill Ambassador of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the American actress Angelina Jolie has urged the international community to intensify its efforts to manage the crisis in the Horn of Africa to save lives in...
Angelina Jolie Attended UN Refugee Agency Awards In Geneva
Posted by: jamespabalan
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2012-07-26 02:21:27 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Angelina Jolie attended UN Refugee Agency Awards in Geneva, she was emotional as she honored a Yemeni aid group at an awards ceremony which also recognized her work over the past decade as a UN refugee agency goodwill ambassador. The...
Swiss Favour 'ASSISTED SUICIDE' And 'SUICIDE TOURISM
Posted by: Mohammad Shabbir Murtaza
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2012-04-13 14:07:54 -0700 | humanitarian-news
An overwhelming majority of people voted against the ban on 'assisted suicides' and 'suicide tourism' in the country. A refrendum was held to seek the opinion of the public in Zurich, Switzerland. Some 85% of the 278,000 votes cast opposed...
Spurt of death by Endosulfan Pesticide
Posted by: madanmenon
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2012-11-02 20:01:41 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Spurt of death by Endosulfan Pesticide (Madan Menon Thottasseri) In the second week of April,2011 campaigners representing hundreds of Public Interest groups in Philippines had urged their regime to back the global ban on Endosulfan to preserve the globe for...
UN rights council adopts 4 resolutions criticizing Israel
Posted by: saleh1966
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2012-07-27 20:04:46 -0700 | political-news
GENEVA -The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted four decisions against Israel on Friday, with Arab and Islamic countries and some Latin American countries voting in favor and the US voting against.In one resolution, the council demanded that Israel end...
Swiss care worker 'sexually abused 114 people'
Posted by: anonymous
Bern :: Switzerland | updated 2013-03-24 05:57:46 -0700 | humanitarian-news
A male social worker had confessed to abusing almost 114 children also disabled adults living in care homes for over three decades. The 54 year old man, who had worked in nine care homes, had also admitted to the eight...
Bono and Bill Gates-backed Global Health Charity EXPOSED as a Fraud
Posted by: redactednews
Davos :: Switzerland | updated 2011-02-15 02:40:41 -0800 | humanitarian-news
RedactedNews | Washington, DeCeit - What institutions can you trust these days with your donations? The Associated Press reported yesterday that the $21.7 billion Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a fraud where at least two-thirds of...
Pakistan flood crisis still unfolding: UN
Posted by: muhammadshahjehankhan
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2012-03-03 10:08:41 -0800 | humanitarian-news
GENEVA: About 166,000 people are still displaced six months after devastating floods swept away homes and drowned livestock in Pakistan, the UN refugees agency said Tuesday."Six months after devastating floods first hit Pakistan in July 2010, some 166,000 people are...
Young Filipino entrepreneur wins Rolex Awards
Posted by: Gino C. Matibag
Lausanne :: Switzerland | updated 2012-01-24 19:56:37 -0800 | humanitarian-news
Filipino Reese Fernandez and four others were bestowed the 2010 Rolex Awards for Enterprise: Young Laureates Program. The 25-year-old social entrepreneur and co-founder of the Rags2Risches enterprise was awarded for assisting women who recycle scrap materials into rugs for sale...
Tai Ji Men Unlawful Tax Case Presented in UN Human Rights Council
Posted by: Owen_Lo
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2010-10-04 23:14:12 -0700 | humanitarian-news
“The reason why Association of World Citizens takes the case to the United Nations is the obvious abuse of government power. Even though the court has ruled in favor of Tai Ji Men, tax authority still assesses illegitimate taxes.”, said...
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