Sentences with phrase «aid organisations such»

Aid organisations such as Oxfam and Médecins Sans Frontières reported to last month's symposium that dealing with water problems is becoming an increasing burden for them in war zones and they are raising their investment in engineering staff.

Not exact matches

Is it legal for the Red Cross and other aid organisations to give aid to belligerent forces or non-civilians in a conflict such as this?

On the one hand, we like to appear liberal and sympathetic to their plight and the existence of such organisations as asylum aid and the refugee council demonstrate this.

He'd aligned himself with such disreputable organisations as Human Rights Watch, UN Aids, Amnesty International and The Lancet medical journal.

Such a discrepancy exists because for the last three decades the global health community — governments, international organisations and aid agencies — have used just one or two «tracer» vaccines to measure immunisation coverage, usually the third dose of DTP or sometimes the first dose of measles.

A large part of the activities of these organisations depends on the involvement of volunteers who participate in collective actions such as legal aid, advice and support in terms of access to services (housing, schools, welfare, etc.), language or educational support (in particular children's support), fundraising, therapeutic or moral support.

He argues there is no evidence to determine if homework aids the development of «soft skills» such as time management, organisation etc... and in fact his findings indicate the highest effects in secondary education are associated with repetition and routine of subject content.

His work has always been deeply concerned with conflict — military, political and social — in Britain and around the world, sometimes working with organisations such as Greenpeace and Christian Aid.

ECRA provides research and consultancy and policy development for campaign groups and ethically - minded organisations, such as Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Rainforest Association, the Soil Association and WWF.

Many of our fee - earners have supported the campaigning work against the residence test though organisations such as Young Legal Aid Lawyers, the

State funded legal services, such as community law centres and legal aid lawyers are visited more often than telephoned, though non-governmental organizations providing free legal information or advice, such as Citizens Advice Bureaux and other social services / advocacy organisations, provide a higher incidence of telephone advice.

For example, two such organisations are Women's Aid and Amen Support Services.