List of Foreign Aid articles
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TOPSHOT - The UN Security Council during an emergency meeting over North Korea's latest nuclear test, on September 4, 2017, at UN Headquarters in New York. The UN Security Council on Monday opened an emergency meeting to agree to a response to North Korea's sixth and most powerful nuclear test, as calls mounted for a new raft of tough sanctions to be imposed on Pyongyang. / AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR (Photo credit should read KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images) U.N. Security Council Members Are More Likely to Receive World Bank Loans
A study shows that World Bank aid is vulnerable to geopolitical influence.
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Yemeni children suspected of being infected with cholera receive treatment at a hospital in the capital Sanaa, on August 12, 2017. A cholera outbreak has claimed the lives of some 2,000 Yemenis in less than four months. / AFP PHOTO / Mohammed HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images) As Cholera-Wracked Yemen Starves, Saudis Paint Rosy Picture of Their Relief Efforts
Aid organizations, rights groups, and lawmakers have slammed Riyadh’s obstruction of aid deliveries.
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The State Department headquarters in Washington on Sept. 12, 2012. Foreign-Policy Uber Report Targets State Department Overhaul
Most foreign-policy experts agree the former oilman is doing his job wrong.
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170831-N-KL846-150 VIDOR, Texas (Aug. 31, 2017) Naval Aircrewman (Helicopter) 2nd Class Jansen Schamp, a native of Denver, Colorado and assigned to the Dragon Whales of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 28, rescues two dogs at Pine Forrest Elementary School, a shelter that required evacuation after flood waters from Hurricane Harvey reached its grounds. The mission resulted in the rescue of seven adults, seven children and four dogs. U.S. Fleet Forces Command sent personnel and assets to bolster Northern Command's support of FEMA's assistance to federal, state and local authorities ongoing relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Hurricane Harvey formed in the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall in southeastern Texas, bringing record flooding and destruction to the region. (U.S. Navy Video by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Christopher Lindahl/Released) Hurricane Harvey dogs
Two puppies rescued from the flood.
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pic Senate Panel Rejects Trump Plan for Cutting Foreign Assistance
Lawmakers also push back on Tillerson’s plans to reshape State Department.
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<> on May 20, 2013 in Washington, DC. Senate Committee Votes Against Administration on Anti-Abortion Global Gag Rule
The surprise move is a direct repudiation of Trump’s approach to foreign aid and reproductive rights.
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usaid crop Report: U.S. Ranks Near Bottom in Commitment to Global Development
And it could drop even further under Trump.
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reorg state Foreign Aid Experts Seething After Key State, USAID Meeting
“It was like a 1950s sex ed class.”
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A Syrian family break their fasting on June 16, 2017, in the centre of Diyarbakir, during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. / AFP PHOTO / ILYAS AKENGIN (Photo credit should read ILYAS AKENGIN/AFP/Getty Images) Inside Turkey’s NGO Purge
The Turkish government is targeting aid workers with intimidation tactics, inane red tape, and senseless deportations.
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BANGKOK - JULY 18: A nurse prepares the AIDSVAX B/E vaccine for injection July 18, 2002 at the Boon Mee Clinic in Bangkok, Thailand. Some 2,500 uninfected intravenous drug users at risk of HIV-1 infection are being tested at 17 different clinics in Bangkok on a volunteer basis during the Phase III trial to determine the efficacy of the vaccine. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) The Next AIDS Pandemic
Funding cuts to key U.S. programs that support medicine and treatment are coming. And with a booming African population and drug-resistant strains on the rise, the future is grim.
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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN-OCTOBER 31: USAID blankets being distributed by Mercy Corps are about to be loaded onto trucks at Chaklala airport October 31,2005 in Rawalpindi, Islamabad surrounded by relief goods waiting to be distributed. The current death toll is now believed to be over 55,000 from the South Asian earthquake that happened over 3 weeks ago. Over 3 million people are still without proper shelter and aid organizations including the U.N are warning that thousands could die in remote mountainous regions as Winter approaches. Atleast 1,400 died in Indian-Kashmir. (photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) Trump Should Fix Foreign Aid, But Not at the Expense of U.S. Interests
The country's international goals, not arbitrary budget decisions, should motivate its development strategy.
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WASHINGTON - MAY 08: An employee walks outside the World Bank headquarters May 8, 2007 in Washington, DC. Recent reports indicate that the global financial institution may soon resolve controversies surrounding its President Paul Wolfowitz. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) House Bill Would Decimate World Bank Funding
The proposed bill slashes more than half a billion dollars, or almost half of U.S. funding for the organization.
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A Palestinian covered with national flag walks on top of the Israeli controvertial separation wall separating the West Bank city of Abu Dis from east Jerusalem, during clashes with Israeli security forces, on November 2, 2015. AFP HOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI (Photo credit should read AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images) For U.S. Aid to the Palestinians, Don’t Use a Sledgehammer When a Scalpel Would Do
American legislation on aid to the Palestinians could have unintended consequences.
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A general view shows a Sudanes worker sitting on the USA flagged bulk carrier, Liberty Glory, docked in Port Sudan on October 17, 2016 as the World Food Programme delivers US aid. / AFP / ASHRAF SHAZLY (Photo credit should read ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images) Foreign Aid Is About U.S. Interests
The Marshall Plan was always in America's national security interest.
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A Syrian man and his children carry sacks of wheat and aid, provided by the World Food Programme (WFP), in Kafr Batna, in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area, on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on March 1, 2016. Aid workers made the first delivery of desperately needed assistance since the start of Syria's fragile ceasefire, as an international task force met to try to bolster the truce. / AFP / AMER ALMOHIBANY (Photo credit should read AMER ALMOHIBANY/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Taxpayers Are Helping Bashar Al-Assad in a Strategic City
While U.S. and U.N. provide humanitarian relief to Deir Ezzor, Syria starves civilians in opposition towns.
