Sentences with phrase «international aid works»

«Last Face» is currently without distribution but centers on two international aid works dealing civil unrest in Africa.

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World Vision International is a Christian humanitarian aid, development and advocacy organization working to overcome poverty across the globe.

Armed men abducted a German nurse working for the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday evening from a compound in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, the aid group said Thursday.

That means support of the quest for a new international economic order and willingness to share generously the tremendous profit the U.S. has been getting out of the region — sharing through substantial financial aid for public works, food, education and housing projects.

Unless they are actively working to change things from within, which most are not, it is out of laziness and narrow self - interest (nice place for a wedding, pretty communion dresses for the kids) over caring about vital international aid issues and healthcare or gender equality.

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.

«In theory, under [the CSPA], the U.S. government is supposed to be able to block military aid that otherwise would have gone to the states on the basis of their child recruitment,» explains Tim Molyneux, the Child Rights Program Manager at Child Soldiers International, an international advocacy group that works to end the use of chInternational, an international advocacy group that works to end the use of chinternational advocacy group that works to end the use of child soldiers.

We spent part of today having hard discussions about relief, international development, aid work, orphan care and prevention, all of the gigantic snarl of issues and mess and problems.

Asked on an employment form why she wanted to work for the international humanitarian aid organization, Spencer wrote, «Because I would love to work for an organization dedicated to carrying on the Lord's work!»

Prospective consultants are required to have a sound, general working knowledge of organic systems, including quality control and practices, conversion periods, national and international standards, basic financial implications, grant aid and support schemes, business practice and environmental management.

Prior to joining Intelligentsia, Michael spent more than a decade leading coffee projects for the international aid organization CRS, living and working extensively in Mexico, Central America and South America.

Operation Blessing — This international relief organization works to provide clean water, medical relief, hunger aid and disaster relief across the globe and in the US.

Thilde Knudsen is the Head of Marie Stopes International's Europe Office and works with the European Parliament Working Group on Reproductive Health, HIV / AIDS and Development.

«We have also seen more women in work than ever before, a tax cut for 11 million women, we have stopped pensions being discriminated against women and we are putting women at the front of our international aid programmes.»

«The Tories «will examine the scope for allocating some funding from the international aid budget» to pay for military - backed stabilisation work.»

So we are helping to improve transparency and accountability by establishing a Joint Financial Management Board through which donors will work with the Somali government to help make sure that revenue from key assets and international aid is used for the good of the Somali people.

«Comparing international organisations» work with our own, bilateral aid programmes is imperative.»

Other organizations — including the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), the Karolinska Institute and the Swiss nonprofit EuroVacc — and manufacturers also have other vaccines in the works.

Mid-career and more senior Franklin Fellows, both sponsored and self - nominated, work on global issues of vital importance to the United States, such as the environment; counterterrorism; human rights; consular matters; international development assistance; HIV / AIDS and other trans - national diseases; trade, energy and financial policy; and many others.

It is our hope that this work will aid the multidisciplinary international efforts to understand and contain this expanding epidemic.

The St George's team worked with partners at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, The Institut Pasteur, Paris Descartes medical school and hospitals in Malawi, Zambia, Cameroon and Tanzania for the study whose results were announced at the International AIDS Society meeting in Paris on July 24.

And the independent International AIDS Society, known for its conferences, has assembled a working group of world experts to spearhead a global strategy for the cure.

An international team of physicists working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany has measured the mass of a «strange» atomic nucleus with the aid of an innovative technique that is capable of significantly greater precision than that of previous methods.

It will work in collaboration with the New York based - International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI); operating costs will be shared equally.

The work and other similar, recent studies could also help «redefine» how vaccines are developed to make them more effective and less likely to have side effects, says Wayne Koff, the chief scientific officer at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative in New York City, who was not involved with the research.

During the AVS 61st International Symposium & Exhibition, being held Nov. 9 - 14, 2014, in Baltimore, Md, Patricia Favero, an art conservator at The Phillips Collection, will explain how collaborating with art scholars and scientists aids her explorations of great works of art.

He co-chairs a scientific working group on HIV cure research that is sponsored by the International AIDS Society.

She is the recipient of several prestigious local and international awards including South Africa's highest honour, the Order of Mapungubwe, from the President of South Africa in 2013 for outstanding work in the field of HIV / AIDS and Tuberculosis Research and Health Policy Development, the 2013 African Union's Kwame Nkrumah Prize for Science and Technology, the 2014 TWAS - Lenovo Prize from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) «for her exceptional and distinguished contributions to HIV prevention and women's health» and the 2016 L'Oréal - UNESCO Women in Science award for Africa and the Arab States.

Rao has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and other international agencies and has contributed to policies on epidemics like AIDS, avian influenza and swine flu.

I also worked as the director of foundation relations at the United Nations Foundation, a UN affiliated organization funding international development aid projects around the globe.

In a very different sphere, Professors Salim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim have won African and international awards for their groundbreaking and lifesaving work in the area of HIV / AIDS.

Prior to attending Princeton, Chhabra worked as a country economist for the International Growth Centre's (IGC) India - Bihar Programme, identifying areas for research that could aid...

Working closely with the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health she is co-leading the Matchmaker Exchange project to aid in solving rare diseases and co-chairs a subcommittee of the BRCA Challenge to support the international sharing of knowledge on BRCA variation.

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) IAVI is a global nonprofit organization funded through the private sector working to speed the search for vaccines to prevent HIV / AIDS.

A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) working with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has discovered a new vulnerable site on the HIV virus.

Funding: This work was supported by the MedSys - Network OncoPred (0315416C) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and by the PedBrain consortium contributing to the International Cancer Genome Consortium, funded by German Cancer Aid (109252) and the BMBF.

The Resource Tracking for HIV Prevention R&D Working Group (RTWG), led by AVAC, in partnership with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and UNAIDS tracks trends in R&D investments and expenditures for biomedical HIV prevention options, including AIDS vaccines, microbicides, multipurpose prevention technologies, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), treatment as prevention, medical male circumcision, female condoms, HSV - 2 vaccines, HIV cure and therapeutic vaccines.

Acknowledgment: This work was supported by the JSPS KAKENHI, Grant - in - Aid for Young Scientists (A), Grant no. 15H05549, and Tohoku University Division for International Advanced Research and Education (DIARE).

Over the years of working with five international aid organizations, we've had the privilege to see first hand how effective eLearning can provide humanitarian organizations with a way to quickly and easily train their entire, globally - distributed network of volunteers and workers.

The documentary highlights 63 organizations in Colombia, Peru, Argentina, India, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Madagascar, Mozambique, and South Africa, and is a commentary on what is working in international aid today.

The International Rescue Committee works in dozens of countries around the world to aid individuals and communities uprooted by conflict or natural disaster and also has offices in 22 cities across the U.S. to help resettle refugees here.

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Australian charities working in the area of overseas aid, who get funding from AusAID, are required to be members of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), and must adhere to the ACFID Code of Conduct.

Aided by thorough investigative work, congressional involvement, consumer boycotts, and international media coverage, PETA achieves long - term changes that improve the quality of life for, and prevent the deaths of, countless animals.

The Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti (ARCH) was formed by various animal welfare organizations, including In Defense of Animals (IDA), the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the World Society for Protection of Animals (WSPA), and the American Humane Association, so that they could work together to aid animals affected by the Haiti earthquake as quickly as possible.

About The Dog Meat - Free Indonesia Coalition Jakarta Animal Aid Network, Change For Animals Foundation, Animal Friends Jogja and Humane Society International created the «Dog Meat - Free Indonesia» campaign based on a shared commitment to working collaboratively to tackle the dog meat trade in Indonesia.

Having worked in the nonprofit arena for many years as the director for One Child At A Time (an international aid and adoption organization), and also as a board member for Children's Charities of America, Jodie possesses a skill set ideal for leveraging dollars into the most efficient action possible to save the greatest number of dogs.

Our work in First Aid has been brought to the attention of the International Federations in Trinidad, Panama and Geneva Switzerland.

Following a non-linear narrative, the film brings together mainstream network news, activist footage, artists» works, and popular entertainment, referencing regimes of power that precipitated a generation of AIDS and queer activism and continues today with international struggles for freedom and expression.

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