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Watchdog finds Home Office reliance on private contracts to house refugees, often in hotels, forced Foreign Office to slice its budgetA third of the UK’s overseas aid budget was spent by the Home Office on housing refugees in a poorly managed programme…
New Delhi: The Confederation of Indian Cyclists (CIC) in collaboration with the Turkish Embassy organised a cycling event in the national capital on Sunday in honour of ‘Operation Dost’.The event was attended by Turkey’s Ambassador to India Firat Sunel, NDRF teams and rescue teams which had gone to Turkey for Operation Dost during the earthquake participated in the event.Turkish Ambassador Firat
Acute hunger is affecting 4.9 million Haitians, according to a UN report, which outlines the increased need for humanitarian aidHaitians are increasingly desperate for humanitarian aid as gang violence engulfing the country has left nearly half the pop…
Slashing funding to the programme from a promised £7m to just £1m sends a ‘stark message to the world’, says Save the ChildrenThe UK government has cut almost £6m in funding to a programme in Afghanistan supporting vulnerable women and girls.Save the …
Programme spent £2.7bn between 2016 and 2021 but is fragmented and lacks a clear rationale, report saysBritain’s aid programme to India is fragmented, lacks a clear rationale and does little to counter the negative trends in human rights and democracy …
New Delhi: Deputy Assistant Administrator (DAA) of the Bureau for Asia Agency for International Development (USAID), Anjali Kaur is on a visit to India from March 11 to 15. The United States and India are partnering together to solve some of the world’s toughest development challenges, including climate change, health access and equity, and inclusive economic growth. Anjali Kaur, is visiting
The charity was taken to court for its work in the Middle East by the US body, whose director justifies litigation against NGOs that ‘cross the line’A leading NGO has broken its silence on a bruising legal battle with a pro-Israeli advocacy group, desc…
Select committee accuses government of wilfully obscuring facts around ‘unsustainable’ trendAs much as a third of the heavily cut UK overseas aid budget is now being spent on housing refugees in the UK, the international development select committee sa…
Number falls well short of target to respond to one of world’s biggest humanitarian disastersThe United Nations has raised about $1.2bn (£996m) from crisis-strained donors towards its $4.3bn aid plan for Yemen, one of the world’s biggest humanitarian d…
World Food Programme calls for urgent $125m injection after being forced into axing supplies into Bangladesh refugee camps by 17%The UN has been forced to cut food rations for Rohingya refugees by 17% and has warned of “unconscionable” further cuts in…