Fashion For Relief was set up to provide humanitarian support.
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Naomi Campbell’s charity Fashion For Relief spent only 8.5% of its funds on the causes it highlighted.
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023.
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The Taliban have enacted laws that violate human rights since they returned to power. But a new edict goes further.
Sudan has been at war since April 2023 when fighting erupted between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
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The United Arab Emirates is emerging as the foreign player most invested in Sudan’s conflict.
Sudanese refugees from Darfur at a relocation camp near the border with Chad in April 2024.
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El Fasher is experiencing a humanitarian crisis, with the Rapid Support Forces encircling the city, preventing civilian escape.
Crosses made of pieces of a migrant boat that sank off southern Italy in 2023.
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New tech tools are more intrusive and subtler than physical barriers. They invade migrants’ privacy and are a threat to personal security.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
An aerial view of the floating pier off Gaza shows its basic structure.
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A pre-World War II US Navy plan for a modular floating platform has developed into a key lifeline in Gaza and at disaster sites around the world.
Aid trucks loaded with supplies wait in Arish, Egypt, after a border crossing with Gaza was closed on May 8, 2024.
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A United Nations agency known as UNRWA is the main player in crisis response in Gaza – but Israel will no longer work with UNRWA, and border crossings are not consistent in getting aid through.
Palestinian civilians are evacuating Rafah as Israeli troops prepare to launch their long-awaited assault on the city.
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The US is redoubling its efforts to complete construction of an aid pier off the coast of Gaza, but with road crossings closed, this will not be enough.
Victims: one of the World Central Kitchen vehicles destroyed in the Israeli airstrike which killed seven aid workers.
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Humanitarian workers are protected by international law, but the number of aid agency workers being killed around the world is growing.
Palestinians stand near a World Central Kitchen vehicle on April 2, 2024, after three aid vehicles were targeted by Israeli strikes.
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Aid workers used to be considered off-limits in conflicts. The deaths of 7 aid workers in Gaza show that’s not the case anymore. Attacks on aid workers are on the rise.
Crew members of the Army ship James A. Loux in Hampton, Va., prepare on March 12, 2024, for the ship to go to the Middle East to build the Gaza pier.
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This isn’t the first time the US military has turned to building a pier to help reach people during times of war or other crises.
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South Africa is among a few countries that completely prohibit the involvement of citizens in foreign armed conflict.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
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A repeat of the Berlin airlifts of 1948 and 1949 would require a unity of political will that doesn’t exist in the west – at least, not yet.
Aid bottleneck: lorries wait at Rafah crossing for access to the Gaza Strip.
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The US president has ordered a pier to be built so that it can supply aid to Gaza. But it will not be enough.
A family crosses the flooded streets of Pakistan in 2010.
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Our expert in disaster recovery and climate change adaptation calls for a longer-term response to conflict zones affected by severe flooding, such as Libya and Pakistan.
The front cover of the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Annual Report on Ethiopia.
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Donkeys provide vital support to women but their lives are often cut short.
Israeli soldiers drive a tank on the border with the Gaza Strip on Feb. 4, 2024.
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Is Israel changing course following the recent ruling by the International Court of Justice? It appears not, and that poses risks for the international community, including Canada.
A UNRWA staff member registers a Palestinian family who fled their house in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh to an UNRWA school, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023.
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Recent moves to cut UNRWA’s funding are not the first time the UN agency has come under threat.