Sentences with phrase «humanitarian work in»

Yesterday's announcement that the UNHCR and Google are mapping humanitarian work in refugee camps is a really encouraging sign of what's to come in online advocacy.

To start off, why don't you tell us a little about what drew you into humanitarian work in the first place and how you became associated with World Vision?

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

Rieff convincingly argues that the very nature of humanitarian work in crisis areas is profoundly affected by larger political agendas.

The United States has done more humanitarian work in the world than any other nation.

As Clooney led off the first episode of The Late Show, the actor freely admitted he had nothing to plug and instead spent some time talking with Colbert about his humanitarian work in the Darfur region of Sudan.

At the same time I am active with the Humanitarian works in Turkey.

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In a speech at a World Jewish Relief dinner at the Guildhall in London, he said the humanitarian agency's work in tackling poverty helps «support people practically, emotionally and spiritually.&raquIn a speech at a World Jewish Relief dinner at the Guildhall in London, he said the humanitarian agency's work in tackling poverty helps «support people practically, emotionally and spiritually.&raquin London, he said the humanitarian agency's work in tackling poverty helps «support people practically, emotionally and spiritually.&raquin tackling poverty helps «support people practically, emotionally and spiritually.»

About five years ago, we saw this amazing interest from entrepreneurs in our humanitarian work.

Known more for his humanitarian work outside music, Bono has invested in several emerging companies through an entity called Elevation Partners.

The job also puts Gore in charge of Dell's global policy initiatives, empowers her to advocate for pro-entrepreneur regulations and has enabled her to reconnect with former colleagues at the U.N. «I've lived and worked in the humanitarian world for my entire career,» she says.

Visitors to the island must fit one of 12 criteria, including travel to visit family, conduct journalism, perform humanitarian work, or participate in an educational tour.

Since Bill's retirement in 2008, their humanitarian work has ramped up, and the couple travels widely in search of causes.

Every year, Walmart Canada customers are invited to contribute to the invaluable humanitarian work the Red Cross accomplishes in Canada.

The working group has been urging governments, companies and other stakeholders to increase the role Christian and other faith - based organisations have in tackling humanitarian crises such as lack of food, water or sanitation, as well as civil wars, religious persecution or natural disasters.

World Vision, a humanitarian organization following Christ's example of caring for the poor, works in dozens of Muslim, Hindu, or Buddhist majority countries.

«South Sudan is the second-most dangerous site for humanitarian work right after Afghanistan and 59 aid workers have been killed since the outbreak of hostilities in 2013.

Cecil Laguardia, an experienced communications specialist in the Philippines, and Ian Dawes who works in Iraq have spoken out to mark World Humanitarian Day 2017.

It maintains a force of 50,000 or so missionaries who work without pay, but need supporting infrastructure, and the church is moving into humanitarian efforts in a big way.

On top of humanitarian work, Graham's foundation has also worked to keep tabs on Christians in North Korea.

People of Faith your calling is much higher and your time is much more valuable in the use of humanitarian causes, continue the good works and may God so help you!

He is a knight in the Order of St. John for his lifetime of humanitarian work.

Networks working in this direction are many and diverse in nature, ranging from radical political militancy to forms of moderate, reformist or humanitarian voluntary civil associations.

Tearfund is working in the region to offer immediate humanitarian assistance, including providing safe water and sanitation access, psychosocial support and cash grants to people like Ali.

The desperate humanitarian needs of people caught up in conflict in Gaza, Iraq and Syria and the work Christian Aid partners are doing to meet these needs will be uppermost in my mind as I run.»

Several of our denominations have been leaders in this work, which is motivated by humanitarian concern and often is necessary, although institutionalization is not always the best solution.

Coupled with this deliberate neutrality toward all parties in a conflict has been the ideal of humanitarian work as an act of charity and compassion extended toward all victims, independent of larger political alliances and agendas (the international organization that Rieff considers the model of this approach is Médecins Sans Frontières).

This development has opened a Pandora's box of political dilemmas and — in the opinion of David Rieff — altered the very nature and integrity of humanitarian work.

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization conducting relief, development, and advocacy activities in its work with children, families, and their communities in nearly 100 countries to help them reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.

The Y's engaged in many activities including social service and humanitarian work, evangelism of an interdenominational sort, the training of laymen for such work, and activities designed to appeal especially to young men and women.

Lisa lives with her husband, Mike, and their baby son in Laos, where Mike works for a humanitarian organization.

Today's guest post comes all the way from Laos, where my friend Lisa McKay — author of the highly acclaimed novel, My Hands Came Away Red — lives with her husband Mike, who works for a humanitarian organization in the region.

In many cases intervention affects the role of humanitarian NGOs, whose work traditionally has been based on political neutrality.

This bleak record has led critics such as David Rieff (author of the recent A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis) to argue that humanitarian intervention and humanitarianism itself no longer work.

As the rich accumulated wealth, they saw it as their duty and responsibility to give this wealth back to society in the form of music, arts, schools, hospitals, and other such humanitarian works.

With the ANC government impassive in the face of this humanitarian disaster, the work of caring for Zimbabwean refugees has fallen to the region's churches, which have used whatever piteously small resources they have to see that these people do not literally die on the streets.

In all likelihood he will continue to involve himself in humanitarian activities, working both in his adopted States and his homeland to improve conditions for childreIn all likelihood he will continue to involve himself in humanitarian activities, working both in his adopted States and his homeland to improve conditions for childrein humanitarian activities, working both in his adopted States and his homeland to improve conditions for childrein his adopted States and his homeland to improve conditions for children.

Jennifer loves continuing to learn about midwifery, catching babies, being involved in humanitarian work, and going on family adventures to the mountains and the ocean.

In 2005, she began working with the international humanitarian organization CARE and has since become their Advocate for Maternal Health.

Serendipity takes her by the hand as she marries her French husband, works with him in a humanitarian effort in East Africa, before settling down in France and building a family.

Humanitarian psychologist Aala El - Khani, PhD, with the University of Manchester in the UK, has done extensive work in protecting and restoring mental health to children of families affected by armed conflict.

«In the longer term we must push the EU into rebuilding a scheme to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean — we shouldn't have to rely on the heroic work of charities to undertake this basic humanitarian tasIn the longer term we must push the EU into rebuilding a scheme to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean — we shouldn't have to rely on the heroic work of charities to undertake this basic humanitarian tasin the Mediterranean — we shouldn't have to rely on the heroic work of charities to undertake this basic humanitarian task.

There is also a blatant lack of involvement of groups of people with disabilities (DPOs) in planning, implementation and monitoring of humanitarian projects, as well as a limited number of technical experts on inclusion working for mainstream organisations.

From 1983 - 1994 he worked as a frontline humanitarian worker for Save the Children UK and the United Nations in Morocco, Sudan and Ethiopia, the Palestinian Territories and Bangladesh.

I commend the work the government is doing to find a peaceful solution to the war in Syria, provide humanitarian assistance and aid to the region and the leadership or country has shown in fighting Daesh.

Father Campbell who is originally from Ireland has been in Ghana since 1971 undertaking missionary and humanitarian work.

If the Somali women in Shaffer's piece view working as instrumental, so does the neoliberal governmentality agenda, according to Elisabeth Olivius, who examines humanitarian aid workers in refugee camps in Thailand and Bangladesh.

Dr Hugo Slim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict where he is working on humanitarian ethics in war and disaster with 12 of the world's leading humanitarian agencies.

From 2003 - 2007 he was Chief Scholar at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva, leading policy work on civilian protection and political mediation.

In my view, member states should put emphasis on areas such as mediation and let the UN step back from traditional development and humanitarian assistance, as plenty of other actors are now involved in this work — state agencies, NGOs, local communities, foundations and companieIn my view, member states should put emphasis on areas such as mediation and let the UN step back from traditional development and humanitarian assistance, as plenty of other actors are now involved in this work — state agencies, NGOs, local communities, foundations and companiein this work — state agencies, NGOs, local communities, foundations and companies.