Rich countries urged to do more as COVID-19 hits poor, war-torn nations
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Wealthy countries were facing mounting calls on Monday to give more funding to poorer nations to help protect the world’s most vulnerable people from the coronavirus pandemic, warning that the spread of the virus was outpacing the global response. Oxfam called for richer nations to deliver a $US160 billion package of […]
ESSAY: THE WORST HUMANITARIAN CRISIS OF THE 21ST CENTURY – FIVE QUESTIONS ON SYRIA ANSWERED
SHELLEY INGLIS, executive director of the University of Dayton Human Rights Center in the US – in an article first published on The Conversation, provides some answers about the ongoing crisis in Syria…
ESSAY: VENEZUELA’S POWER STRUGGLE REACHES A TENSE STALEMATE, AS HUMAN SUFFERING DEEPENS
In an article first published on The Conversation, DAVID SMILDE, of Tulane University in the US, surveys the situation in Venezuela…
Yemen’s “descent into hell” in numbers
Thomson Reuters Foundation Peace talks between Yemen’s Saudi-backed government and Houthi backed rebels in Sweden this week offer a critical opportunity end civilian deaths, aid groups said on Wednesday. Nearly four years of civil war have spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, killed tens of thousands of people and left more than 8 million facing famine. […]
‘Catastrophic’ risk of death for 300,000 Yemeni children trapped by attack
Thomson Reuters Foundation Some 300,000 children risk death, injury and starvation as they are trapped in Yemen’s main port city which is under assault from Saudi-led Arab states, aid groups said on Wednesday. The biggest battle in a three-year war, which has already created the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis, centres on Hodeidah, the main route […]
Yemen could face famine in 2018 as war continues, aid agencies warn
Thomson Reuters Foundation Already battered by three years of war, Yemen is in danger of tipping into famine in 2018 if fighting continues to disrupt imports of food aid, aid agencies warned. In the worst-case scenario, the war-torn nation “faces a risk of famine” if there is prolonged and significant disruption to imports through its […]
HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE: WITH CRISES SET TO WORSEN, WHAT ARE AID GROUPS’ PRIORITIES FOR 2018?
The UK-based Thomson Reuters Foundation asked 10 aid agencies to name their top priorities for 2018. ANASTASIA MOLONEY reports on their responses…
Almost 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, says UN
Almost 19 million people in Yemen are in need of humanitarian assistance after years of violent conflict and “deliberate war tactics” to accelerate the collapse of key institutions and the country’s economy, according to the UN. Launching an unprecedented international appeal for $US2.1 billion to provide assistance to some 12 million people in Yemen this […]