Sentences with phrase «of aid workers»

In the last year, terrorists kidnapped two groups of aid workers.

Opening Jan. 15, AWFJ's Movie of the Week is A Perfect Day, the new drama from Spanish writer / director Fernando Leon de Aranoa about a group of aid workers attempting to resolve a crisis in an armed Balkan conflict zone.

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After Spring immerses us in the rhythms of the camp, the role of the aid workers, and the daily lives of two families as they contemplate an uncertain future.

A group of aid workers tries to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone: Sophie (Thierry) is a newcomer, she wants to help; Mambrú (Del Toro) has seen it all and wants to go home; Katya (Kurylenko) once wanted Mambrú; Damir (Stukan) wants the war to end, and B (Robbins) doesn't know what he wants.

I am traveling with a team of aid workers just as major combat is drawing to a close.

Such claims, true or not, have the potential to stymie the efforts of aid workers in the field, making water engineers» work more hazardous, and the prospects for protecting water supplies from military attack much harder.

Cuomo boarded a plane to Puerto Rico with a raft of aid workers to assess the damage wreaked by Hurricane Maria and help the island.

Despite the fact that in her presentation she is clear of the influx of aid workers and researchers from the Global North coming into communities in the DRC to question abuse survivors (she reveals, for example, that only oral permission is obtained because the act of signing a document has taken on the meaning that the signer is entitled to some form of aid), she believes that US military personnel should be direct (and, it would seem, demanding) about the subject of sexual assault.

The United Nations is investigating reports its own peacekeeping forces failed to stop the mass rape of dozens of aid workers in South Sudan, even though they were told about it.

The White Georgette Blouse is something of a cautionary tale whilst the diary of an Aid Worker is global in its perspective

Not exact matches

In Turkey, Zughbi is preparing for a lifetime of exile, but says conditions are not much better, as he struggles to make a living still as a medical aid worker.

«Jihadi John» appeared in videos posted online by the Islamic State starting in August 2014 that depicted the beheadings of US journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, US aid worker Abdul - Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.

TIME spoke to aid workers familiar with Aleppo to discover what daily life is like for thousands in the war - torn, eastern part of the city:

There is no official support for children who lose their parents in the air strikes and it is a struggle for aid workers to access them, so many rely on members of the community to take them in.

I don't mean harming or killing in the same way that policemen and women are harmed or killed in the line of duty, obviously, or people who handle hazardous chemicals, or aid workers in war - torn countries.

«It's going to be a hard sell that this activity was either concerted or for mutual aid or protection, rather than simply venting or pitting one group of workers against the others, which does not sound very mutual,» Morantz said.

Fuentes» arrest ratchets up the pressure on the British charity, already reeling after reports of sex abuse by aid workers in Haiti.

Chris Martin, a care aid who chairs the HEU local at Nanaimo Seniors Village, has filed a grievance against what she saw as escalating harassment of union workers there.

The good news: Aid workers have the lessons of Katrina to fall back on as they try to help the thousands of people displaced by this storm.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said National Guard chain - saw crews were aiding Transportation Department workers clearing roads in the western part of the state, where Irma's assault was most severe.

The strong dollar, changes in the economy creating mismatches between workers» skills and the needs of business, and well - intentioned government programs that aid the jobless but also create disincentives to seek training and employment have slowed annual GDP growth to 1.8 percent since 2000 from 3.4 percent the prior two decades.

«LuminAID's core technology — solar lights that pack flat for ease of distribution — was created to address both the need in an emergency and to make it easier for aid workers to distribute supplies on the ground,» Sreshta said.

This follows the Court's March 9, 2018 decision that upheld the Workers» Compensation Tribunals» decision to deny the employee compensation for medical aid in the form of medical marijuana under Workers Compensation Act in N.S. Workers» Compensation Act in Skinner v. Nova Scotia (Workers» Compensation Appeals Tribunal).

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A «small army» of social workers and charitable groups managed their arrivals» from Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society workers in their white enamel badges to the volunteers from the National Council of Jewish Women (light blue silk armbands).

«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.

«And the thousands of volunteers in our country who will give up their time to make someone else's Christmas that little bit better: from faith inspired projects like the Churches Together initiative in my own constituency - to aid workers helping those in war - torn parts of the world.

Christian aid workers have told Premier about the most challenging aspects of their roles and urged churches to take an active interest.

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state to a new level of political and social awareness.

Typical of this approach are the activities of Nader's organization, Common Cause, legal aid for the poor, Chavez» organization of farm workers, the enforcing of civil rights, legislation for minority groups, and revival and application of the doctrine of just war to international conflict.

If the Israelis wanted the peace in the region, and to stop all the rocket attacks, etc, they would escort the humanitarian aid ships to Gaza, instead of offloading the ships at one of their ports AND treating the aid workers (who are civilians) like criminals.

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state...

Lancaster indicts African governments but also faults the aid system, pointing to serious but ultimately secondary matters, such as the absurdity of expatriate aid workers doing jobs that Africans could do themselves if their governments could afford to hire them.

The 26 - year - old was threatened at the end of a video showing the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning in October after being captured by I.S. a year earlier.

A video purporting to show the killing of American aid worker Peter Kassig, whose grandfather was a Methodist minister, has been posted on the internet.

Rev Kuwa Shamal Abazmam Kurri who faced the death penalty or life imprisonment was acquitted of all charges in January, while Christian aid worker Jasek from the Czech Republic received a presidential pardon and left Sudan in February.

The organization Christian Aid Mission has released a disturbing report, recounting how 11 Christian workers and one of their children were captured by militants from the radical Islamic group ISIS and publicly executed after they refused to denounce their faith.

The organization Christian Aid Mission has released a disturbing report, recounting how 11 Christian workers and one of their children were captured by militants from the radical Islamic group ISIS...

Hiramine utilized the help of other missionaries in the country, including fellow aid workers, to transport the military equipment.

«If true, to use unwitting aid workers on behalf of an intelligence operation, people who genuinely do humanitarian work, to turn their efforts into intel collection is unacceptable,» Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a member of the House Intelligence Committee told The Intercept at the time.

Her post was followed by hundreds more, from bloggers and aid workers and missionaries alike, including some of our favorites — Nish Weiseth, Elizabeth Esther, Rage Against the Minivan, and Jamie The Very Worst Missionary.

The truth of the matter is, many long - term missionaries, aid workers, and world - changers were inspired by short trips that changed their perspective forever.

I'm reminded of the Red Cross Aid worker who was brutally murdered in Pakistan last week for helping out as a doctor to heal the sick.

But almost every element of this dynamic of human dissolution has also been aided and abetted by Republican policies, if in different guises: commercial self - interest, disregard for the poor and the survival struggles of economically battered workers, lack of interest in environmental self - discipline and generational concern for the future, disrespect for the Nations.

The United States welcomed its immigrants, protected its workers, freed the slaves, enfranchised women, aided the needy, provided social security for the aged, ensured the civil rights of all its citizens, and made public space accessible to the handicapped: all in service to its ideals of justice.

Marian Karvonen, a worker with the Christian relief agency Tearfund U.K., writes a column for Reject Apathy about the Church coming to Pakistan's aid during this crisis of intense flooding.

In the close quarters of the holding cell, trained Genesis workers talk with the women about a variety of topics, including AIDS.

It's as if there's a deadly virus at the center of it and we simply band - aid the surface sores and send the workers back into a very contaminated environment.

Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines two months ago, and with hundreds of thousands of people still homeless, some aid workers fear the public...