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Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Commission

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Name: Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Commission

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

The country is broke but we can afford to give 8 million to cannibals

How can this government justify giving €8.1 million to the "rebels" in Syria especially after we have evidence that their leaders like to eat the hearts of dead people. Of course this money is classified as "humanitarian" aid. However this money goes ... [Published Politics.ie - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Cannibalize, Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Com..., Child Benefits, Syria, Humanitarian Aid

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

European Commission

World: Ready to respond when disaster strikes, the new Emergency Response Centre opens doors

Source: European Commission Humanitarian Aid departmentCountry: World With natural and man-made disasters increasing every year, and Europe ready to respond in solidarity to save lives and help the most vulnerable, the European Commission has today opened ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 15 2013]

Entities: Disaster, emergency, Humanitarian Aid, European Commission, Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Com...

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Kenya: The Price of Fear

Rio De Janeiro In slums where killings, rape, kidnappings and other criminal violence are commonplace, say researchers, lives and livelihoods are hampered by a force that is tough to measure: Fear."We talk about homicide rates and deaths. Fear is a huge ... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: Kenya, Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Com..., Crime

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

European Union

Mali: The European Union allocates an extra €12 million in humanitarian aid for Mali

Source: European Commission Humanitarian Aid departmentCountry: Mali The European Union will allocate an extra €12 million in humanitarian aid for Mali. This was announced today by ECHO´s commissioner Kristalina Georgieva during the international donor ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 15 2013]

Entities: Mali, Humanitarian Aid, European Union, Allotment

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

The price of fear

Rowdy youth use slings to throw stones at a rival group in Kenya’s Kibera slums in violence that killed three people in January 2008RIO DE JANEIRO, 15 May 2013 (IRIN) - In slums where killings, rape, kidnappings and other criminal violence are commonplace, ... [Published IRIN - May 15 2013]

Entities: Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Com..., Crime, Mexico

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Humanitarian intervention in violence-hit slums - from whether to how

Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRINYouth in Kenya’s Kibera slums carry crude weapons ready to fight youths from the rival side. Three people were killed in the January 2008 confrontationRIO DE JANEIRO, 15 May 2013 (IRIN) - In a move that experts say could open the ... [Published IRIN - May 15 2013]

Entities: Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Com..., Humanitarian Aid, Armed Conflict, Interference, Humanism

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Haiti: Championing resilience in Haiti

Source: European Commission Humanitarian Aid departmentCountry: Haiti 08/05/2013 – The goal: putting resilience on top of the agenda. The venue to do so: an extremely at-risk country, Haiti. The Political Champions of Resilience, a group established in ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 15 2013]

Entities: Haiti, Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Com..., Resilience

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 4 reports

EU Children of Peace initiative: EU Provides Nobel Peace Prize funds to UNICEF for Education in Northwestern Pakistan

European Union Flag Islamabad/Brussels, 8 May 2013 – The European Union has provided € 300,000 from its Nobel Peace Prize money to UNICEF to support its educational activities for children affected by a lack of security in parts of northwestern Pakistan...These ... [Published UN gender equality news feed - May 08 2013]

Entities: United Nations International Children's Emergen..., European Union, Nobel Peace Prize

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 2 reports

Uganda: Rural communities chart a new development path

Source: European Commission Humanitarian Aid departmentCountry: Uganda In rural villages across north-eastern Uganda, drought is the most feared threat. Despite the Karamoja region receiving rains every season for the past three years, farmers and livestock ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 02 2013]

Entities: Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Com..., Uganda, Amudat (Uganda), Drought

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 2 reports

Sudan: ECHO Factsheet Sudan – April, 2013

Source: European Commission Humanitarian Aid departmentCountry: Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan (Republic of) Humanitarian situation and needs Key messages • 10 years since the Darfur conflict broke out, violence and insecurity continue to cause displacement ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Sudan, Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Com..., South Sudan, Ethiopia, War in Darfur

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 2 reports

Promised aid funding for Syria reaches half-way point*

Syrian refugee children sit on a sidewalk at a camp in TurkeyDUBAI, 18 April 2013 (IRIN) - UN officials are lauding as a “big achievement” today’s announcement that Kuwait has officially allocated $300 million promised for humanitarian aid in Syria.Only ... [Published IRIN - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: United Nations, Refugees, Syria, Donor, Kuwait

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 2 reports

EU grants €3.6 million to help increase Bangladesh’s resilience to natural disasters

The Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department of the European Commission will provide €3.65 million (approx. Tk 373 million) to help vulnerable communities in Bangladesh reduce the risks arising from recurring floods, cyclones and other natural ... [Published New Age Bangladesh - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Bangladesh, Disaster, Resilience, European Union, Khulna

Quotes

"We talk about homicide rates and deaths. Fear is a huge part of the protection mandate, and we don't measure it well" said Ronak Patel, director of the urbanization and crises programme at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative...

Kenya: The Price of Fear [Published AllAfrica.com - May 16 2013]

"Today the international community is coming together to help give Mali a long-term development perspective. But we should not forget the urgent humanitarian needs of many Malians affected both by the conflict in the North since early 2012, and the food and nutrition crisis which continues to hit many of the most vulnerable people. The food crisis is now reaching emergency levels in some parts of Northern Mali. The lean season is making this worse, in Mali as elsewhere in the Sahel - so we need to act urgently to help get assistance to people."

Mali: The European Union allocates an extra €12 million in humanitarian aid for Mali [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 15 2013]

Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, Kristalina Georgieva, said "With the increasing frequency and complexity of disasters, making a coordinated and immediate response is an essential part of any life-saving action. We have established the Emergency Response Centre to enable the EU and its Member States to respond to overwhelming natural and man-made disasters in a more timely and efficient manner."

World: Ready to respond when disaster strikes, the new Emergency Response Centre opens doors [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 15 2013]

“Finally, nowhere in our legislation is it defined that we have to operate only on IHL qualified situations. It is mentioned: ` "Whereas people in distress, victims of natural disasters, wars and outbreaks of fighting, or other comparable exceptional circumstances have a right to international humanitarian assistance where their own authorities prove unable to provide effective relief.’"

Humanitarian intervention in violence-hit slums - from whether to how [Published IRIN - May 15 2013]

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Blogs

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The European Comission Donates Extra €10 Millio... [Published EU opinion & policy debates BlogActiv.eu - Mar 28 2013] By the World Food Programme BRUSSELS – A contribution of €10 million, announced today, from the European Commission’s Directorate for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO), has been welcomed by the United Nations World Food Programme, an... ...
Top five weather and climate stories of 2012 [Published EarthSky - Jan 01 2013] Last year at this time, I wrote up a list of the top five natural disasters of 2011 . There were so many negative and depressing things that occurred in 2011, that it was hard to narrow down the list. I decided to look at 2012 with a different perspective: ...
WHO: Yellow fever in the Democratic Republic of... [Published H5N1 - Dec 12 2012] WHO has published Yellow fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo – update.The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Congo is launching an emergency mass-vaccination campaign against yellow fever in Ewo District in Cuvette-Ouest region, beginning next ...

Press Releases

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