Refugees and internally displaced persons
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Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response 2011 edition
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Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, a 2011 revised handbook of The Sphere Project, sets out minimum standards for four sectors: water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion; food security and nutrition; shelter, settlement and non-food items; and health action.
UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East)
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UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) provides assistance, protection and advocacy for some 5 million registered Palestine refugees, pending a solution to their plight. In Jordan the UNRWA runs schools, training and health centres, provides...
American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)
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The American Near East Refugee Aid, ANERA, is an American NGO. Initially ANERA sought to help the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians by providing emergency relief. ANERA now also addresses the long-term economic and social needs of Palestinians, Lebanese and Jordanians through its...
Medical Aid For Palestinians (MAP)
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Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is a British charity that offers medical services and advocates for the universal right to health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees. MAP also contributes to the psycho-social support efforts for women and children affected by the...
Interpal
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Interpal is a British charity focusing solely on the provision of relief and development aid to needy Palestinians world-wide. Interpal provides emergency aid, runs a child sponsorship programme and sponsors education and community development projects aimed at preserving Palestinian cultural...
LexisNexis
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On 13 June 2012, LexisNexis introduced the Human Trafficking Awareness Index (HTA Index) which uses the respected Nexis service to track and analyze the volume of news articles related to human trafficking. It is hoped that the service will provide a valuable tool for campaigners looking to raise...
LEADS
LEADS is a Sri Lankan NGO that works for marginalised groups throughout the country, seeksing to address the root causes of poverty, through participatory and rights based approaches. LEADS is involved in child protection, relief and rehabilitation, community development and advocacy work. The...
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Russia
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The International Committe of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an independent organisation whose mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence, and to provide them with assistance. It directs and coordinates the international relief activities conducted by the...
Refugees International
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Refugees International develops policy and advocacy positions based on local knowledge of key humanitarian emergencies. Their advocates spend weeks in the field to reach populations that are most in need and determine immediate, practical ways to address the humanitarian emergencies they face. By...
Triangle Génération Humanitaire
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Founded in 1994, Triangle Génération Humanitaire is a non-governmental organisation based in France that specialises in international relief and development. Triangle Génération Humanitaire organises humanitarian interventions for refugees, provides construction and equipment of centers for the...
African Humanitarian Action (AHA)
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African Humanitarian Action (AHA) provides programmes in capacity development, health care, public advocacy, relief and recovery, gender-based violence prevention and response, and HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria prevention and care. AHA also provides emergency, health and social services to...
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
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The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre is Australia's leading asylum seeker aid, health and advocacy organization. The Centre acts as a one-stop shop for asylum seekers, providing medical care, food parcels, employment and counselling services, and works with destitute asylum seekers as well as those...
Rotary World Community Service Resource Network
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Rotary World Community Service Resource Network (WCSRN) is a global network of Rotarians with special expertise who can provide comprehensive information and advice to clubs and districts on successful approaches to carrying out international service projects.
Local Wells Fargo Bank Donates Thanksgiving Lunch to Refugees
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Thirty-three refugees celebrated their first Thanksgiving, festivities which were sponsored by a local Wells Fargo branch and included five turkeys and all the trimmings of a traditional Thanksgiving meal. The Wells Fargo branch, located on Brand Boulevard in Glendale, California has partnered...
IKEA Foundation provides a $3.8million grant to Refugees United
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Refugees United, a non-profit that has developed the world’s first online, mobile phone-enabled tracing service to help reconnect individuals separated by war or natural disaster, announced today it had received a $3.8 million grant from IKEA Foundation. The two year partnership will enable...
Tibet Aid
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Tibet Aid is a not-for-profit organisation providing humanitarian assistance to the people of Tibet, primarily by locating sponsors for homeless, impoverished, and destitute Tibetan refugees. Tibet Aid also promotes Tibetan cultural preservation and supports educational and medical relief programs...
Air Terminal Gifts and Catholic Community Services provide donations and employment opportunities for refugees
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Catholic Community Services (CCS) has, for decades, helped hundreds of refugees start new lives in Utah. Air Terminal Gifts has donated $12,000 to the CCS refugee resettlement program. Both companies work in partnership, employing refugees and trying to recognise and respond to their immediate...
LUSH lends its support to National Refugee Week 2009
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Shoppers at cosmetics store LUSH have passed on their messages of support onto people seeking asylum and refugees as the high street chain marked national Refugee Week 2009. LUSH, which teamed up with Refugee Action for the second time to mark the annual celebrations, donated bars of LUSH soap. The...
Edison International contributes to Asian Tsunami disaster relief
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It is not often that the world’s collective sense of solidarity and compassion is captured by a single event. The earthquake-spawned tsunami that ravaged so many countries in southern Asia and eastern Africa in December 2004 was one such event. Proving once again how committed they are to making a...
Microsoft and Nethope partner to provide humanitarian disaster relief
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Since 2005, Microsoft has partnered closely with NetHope to explore how IT can more effectively foster collaboration, drive innovation, and transform technology use in development and humanitarian relief efforts around the world.