MANY DOING IT TOUGH THIS WINTER
ROBERT TICKNER, chief executive of Red Cross Australia, appeals for people to dig deep for some of Australia’s most vulnerable this winter…
GROWING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN BURUNDI
21st May, 2015 Humanitarian organisations are responding to a growing humanitarian crisis in the small central African nation of Burundi which has seen more than 105,000 people flee the country. Weeks of unrest and protests over President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to seek re-election in June culminated in an attempted coup last week while he was […]
MYANMAR: HUMANITARIAN AND AID GROUPS PLEAD FOR UN SECRETARY-GENERAL TO NEGOTIATE ACCESS TO ROHINGYA CAMPS
Against the backdrop of the current refugee crisis taking place off the coast of South-East Asian nations, DAVID ADAMS reports on urgent calls for international humanitarian access to be granted to camps in Myanmar housing the Rohingya people…