Fazle Abed, founder of world’s biggest non-government organisation BRAC, dies aged 83
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Fazle Abed, the founder of BRAC, the world’s largest non-governmental development organisation, died on Friday at the age of 83 in his home country of Bangladesh. Abed founded BRAC in 1972 as a small rehabilitation project and over five decades built up the massive operation that worked in 11 countries in […]
British charities spending more to tackle sexual misconduct, survey finds
Thomson Reuters Foundation British charities are spending more money on staff and training to tackle sexual misconduct since an abuse scandal swept through the aid sector, a survey has found. Revelations earlier this year that Oxfam staff used prostitutes in Haiti snowballed into widespread reports of harassment and abuse in the aid sector, plunging it […]
Statelessness can be seen as “most extreme violation” of international law, says NGO head
The existence of statelessness can be viewed as the “most extreme violation” the international law, according to the president of German NGO, Bread for the World. In comments made at a conference on the issue held in Berlin last week, Rev Dr Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel, whose organisation is the development and relief agency of Protestant churches in […]