article / Tháng 4 13, 2015
Cyclone Pam one month on - Are we doing enough?
As rain began to lightly touch my roof the other night I was first filled with relief.It’s almost a month since Cyclone Pam and since the pelting rains brought with her, we have rarely had a drop since.
article / Tháng 9 21, 2009
Another day in Gaza - Lifting of the siege the only hope of a quarantined people
A world that celebrates 60 years of the UN Charter of Human Rights and the Geneva Convention (and even longer International Humanitarian Law) ought to wail and howl at its inability to humanely care for and heal a population that has been displaced for a significant amount of time corresponding to t
article / Tháng 8 11, 2009
Loans help Montenegro family earn income from tourism
Tourists from across Montenegro and other countries flock to the ‘Budvanska rivijera’ coastal area around Budva, a 2,500-year-old settlement and one of the oldest on the Adriatic sea coast.
article / Tháng 10 28, 2014
Winter coupled with inadequate shelter, threatens thousands in Iraq
“We don’t need anything else…but please, just help us for winter,” a mother pleads. Wadha and her family are living in the open, with only some plastic sheets, cardboard and wooden pallets to protect them.
article / Tháng 9 30, 2014
Displaced families of Qaraqosh find refuge in regional churches
Four months ago, Basma, 26, was working as a lawyer in a government directorate in Mosul. She and her husband had bought property and were building a new house. But in August, they were forced to flee their hometown of Qaraqosh in Iraq’s Nineva province.
article / Tháng 1 23, 2016
Disaster resilient school and community models in Surabaya
Heavy rain started to fall outside their elementary school in Surabaya. When student Aulia Cahyani looked out the window, around 30cm of water had inundated the schoolyard.“Where should we go?” the confused students shouted.
press release / Tháng 5 21, 2020
Civil Society Call for Action to Protect Civilians
In the more than 20 years of consideration and prioritization of the protection of civilians in armed conflict by the UN Security Council, significant progress has been made in building an international normative civilian protection framework.