Sentences with phrase «foreign aid work»

I was never terribly concerned by foreign aid work, nor by Africa, says the founder of Zulufadder, Mari Maurstad.

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In return for those payments, funded with foreign aid, Hanafi worked with local officials in Nangahar province to try to lure other militants away from the fight.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

From Trish: I'd like to see the writer address common myths about humanitarian work in general, including foreign aid.

Oxfam are urging Australia's political parties to commit to a major increase in our foreign aid budget and the proportion of it that goes to working with small - scale producers, women especially, to tackle food insecurity in the global south.

While in Malawi, we visited sites that work with and benefit from foreign aid agencies and organizations, including villages and farms that specifically work with Heifer.

He had said his aim of having a Ghana independent of foreign aid will be possible if the Ghana Revenue Authority, especially at the country's ports, work diligently to collect the needed taxes.

I am also working on an article on Conservative foreign policy under Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard and am planning to begin writing in the near future on Britain's development aid programme.

After leaving the Foreign Service in 1994, Cowal worked with the U.N.'s HIV / AIDS program as director of external relations.

She described the case of Peter Piot, executive director of the U.N.'s HIV / AIDS program, where Cowal worked after leaving the U.S. Foreign Service.

In a subsequent exchange, Senator Benjamin Cardin (D — MD) said that Trump's executive order yesterday reinstating the so - called Mexico City policy, which bans U.S. funding for foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote abortions in the context of family planning, could also apply to maternal health organizations and others working to stop the Zika virus and HIV / AIDs.

Work Experience (in alphabetic order): bartender, book reviewer, brain study subject, caretaker, carpenter, caterer, coach, conscript, counselor, editor, farm worker, fashion exec assistant, fish market packer, foreign correspondent, garbage compactor, gardener, grip, house painter, human rights researcher, journalist, lawn mower, library aide, lifeguard, literary agent assistant, mover, music teacher, office aid to Rabbi, proofreader, publishing intern, recycling inspector, road worker, sternman, stock analyst, stringer, substitute teacher, swim instructor, technology teacher, trail maintainer, transcriber, translator, tree planter, tunaboat crewman, tutor, waiter, website consultant.

Academic Dishonesty, Fat Tax On Food, Homeland Security, Transportation, Working Women, AIDS / HIV, Genocide, Abuse Of The Elderly, Teen Pregnancy, Media Violence, Weapons Disarmament, Vaccinations, Foreign Oil Dependence, Air Pollution, World Trade, Arms Control, Homeless in America, Family Violence, National Tobacco Settlement, Age Discrimination, Tobacco Industry, Foster Care, Voluntary, Welfare Reform, Airline Safety, Euthanasia, Global Warming, Poverty, Armed Conflicts, Condoms In Schools, Global Resources, Feminism, Urban Terrorism, Water Resources, Medical Ethics, Term Limits, Abused Women, Creationism vs. Evolution, US Budget, Prison regime, Government Fraud and Waste, Academic Freedom, Foreign Policy, Internet Chat rooms, Violent Video Games, Nonproliferation, Trade with China, Iraq, National Testing and many others.

This sentiment is echoed by several of the foreign aid organisations working in Myanmar today.

Prior to joining CGD, Gleave conducted field research in Nigeria and Uganda, working on various projects involving the Nollywood film industry, SMS - based crowdsourcing initiatives, perceptions of foreign aid, and NGO effectiveness.

As Counsel to the Chief of the Justice Department, he aided in the oversight of more than 100 prosecutors working on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, securities, health care, and other fraud investigations and cases.

He also worked for the inclusion of family planning provisions in foreign aid legislation.