FAO seeks coronavirus and hunger relief at Asia-Pacific conference
Nations met to examine how to help pandemic-battered farmers keep supplying food for tens of millions of people.
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Top U.N. panel moves to further tighten humanitarian aid for Syria
The U.N. Security Council, bowing to Russia, constricted aid for Syrians in areas still beyond Syrian government control.
E.U. and U.N. donor summit pledges 78% of the aid sought for Syrians
Pledges of €6.9 billion will be used to help people displaced inside Syria and refugees who fled to neighboring countries.
Choctaw and Irish mutual aid is a model of cooperation for the ages
Navajos thanked Irish donors for repaying a 173-year-old favor that was an early example of an international aid organization.
U.N. appeal for humanitarian aid surges for nations fighting pandemic
The U.N. more than tripled its humanitarian aid appeal to $6.7 billion, up from $2 billion, for vulnerable countries.
U.N. Security Council renews Syrian aid, but cuts humanitarian crossings
The U.N. relies on crossings to truck supplies through Turkey, Iraq and Jordan into Syrian areas beyond Assad's control.
White Helmets ally, humanitarian leader found dead in Turkey
Police are investigating the death of James Le Mesurier, whose organization founded and supported White Helmets in Syria.
U.N. envoy sustains new peace talks among all sides of Syrian civil war
The peace talks, held for the first time under the auspices of a new Syrian constitutional committee, will go a second week.
U.N. chief urges Syrian civilian protections amid Turkey's advance
The U.N. chief expressed concern over fighting in northeast Syria and called for 'maximum restraint' against atrocities.
For humanitarians, the Geneva Conventions at 70 are a call to duty
To mark the anniversary, diplomats planned to discuss the strengths and weakness of international humanitarian law.
U.K. regulator faults Oxfam staff for serious misconduct in Haiti aid work
The scandal surfaced in the aid work that Oxfam Great Britain did for Haitians displaced by the January 2010 earthquake.
Red Cross pleads for info on missing staff taken by militants in Syria
The kidnappings of the three ICRC staff six years ago had been kept secret until now out of fears for their safety.
IFRC gains entry to scale up aid efforts as Venezuelan crisis deepens
Venezuelans who cannot flee are in the grips of a humanitarian crisis from lack of food and basic services.
Report on global aid finds lives saved equal to twice the U.S. population
The ONE Campaign says at least 669 million people worldwide would have needlessly died between 1990 and 2016.
U.N. task force seeks Syrian civilian protections but fighting doesn't stop
Russia and Turkey plan to allow a 'war on terror' to continue against fighters living near civilians in the Idlib region.
U.N. humanitarian chief visits North Korea where 10 million need aid
The U.N.'s top humanitarian official paid a rare visit to North Korea, meeting aid providers and some who need help.