Gibraltar’s decision to terminate permission for the Aquarius to conduct operations in the Mediterranean is the latest example of national politics undermining rescue at sea.
In many countries around the world, government agencies work in partnership with NGOs to deliver public services such as health, education and sanitation for communities.
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Environmental and health groups have called for the creation of a non-political federal agency with the power to rule on pollution levels - much like the Reserve Bank does for interest rates.
Reports of sexual misconduct by Oxfam aid workers sparked a flurry of other allegations.
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Power imbalances and inequality lie at the heart of the international development industry. But the Oxfam scandal shows that organisations mustn’t succumb to it.
The genocide memorial in Kigali. Humanitarian workers in Rwanda had to deal daily with the horrors of war.
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It is shocking to see the extent to which humanitarian workers in Rwanda became regular eyewitnesses to violence, murder and large-scale massacres in 1994.
The government has been criticised for its appointment of Gary Johns to head up Australia’s independent charities regulator.
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Australians have reason to be apprehensive that some civil voices are not being heard in our liberal democracy.
Women’s NGOs work hard to improve the lives of women in the developing world, including in countries like India and Tanzania. But then they’re often cut out from the process. This photo was taken in the remote village of Uzi on Zanzibar Island in Tanzania in April 2016.
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NGOs (non-government organizations) run by women in India and Tanzania fuel the success of development projects, but the women are too easily marginalized once the projects get off the ground.