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The NGO alliance InterAction urges lawmakers to mark this year’s World Humanitarian Day, which honors aid workers who help millions worldwide by providing life-saving assistance and long term rehabilitation to disaster-affected communities, by publicly showing support for U.S. foreign assistance and keeping it off the chopping block in the 2012 budget
President and CEO Sam Worthington quoted. Scenes of emaciated children and weary families crowded into refugee camps have been playing on televisions around the world for weeks now.But the famine hitting the Horn of Africa, which has killed more than 29,000 Somali children, has yet to propel the kind of outpouring of private donations seen in some recent disasters, and the U.N.'s humanitarian agency is reporting a shortfall as well.
InterAction President and CEO Sam Worthington is quoted in this Horn of Africa story.Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday described the severe drought threatening more than 12 million Africans with starvation as a stark reminder of the need to invest in global agriculture and nutrition — Obama administration goals that could be sharply limited if House Republicans get their way.
When lawmakers in the U.S. Congress began discussing how much foreign aid to give Middle East countries in 2012, their own debt crisis loomed large. Republicans in the House of Representatives proposed big cuts in overall American commitments. Yet the Arab Spring lifted the democratic hopes of millions in the Middle East and has presented Congress with bigger questions about how to invest in the political futures of Egypt, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, for example.
Mark A. Lotwis has been appointed Senior Director of Public Policy at InterAction, a Washington, D.C.-based alliance of U.S. international nongovernmental organizations (NGO). In his new position, Mark will be responsible for directing InterAction’s policy work, helping to shape important policy decisions on humanitarian, relief and long-term development issues. He will also serve as a member of the senior management team.
InterAction President and CEO Samuel A. Worthington quoted in article. Somalia is experiencing the worst famine the world has witnessed in a generation, the result of the region's worst drought in 60 years. The UN estimates that a quarter of the Somali population is now displaced—some 1.5 million people—and more than 10 million are in immediate need of food assistance or face starvation.
InterAction President and CEO Sam Worthington is quoted.In March of last year, two months after the devastating earthquake that killed 300,000 Haitians and left more than a million homeless, Sean Penn was faced with a monumental challenge. Penn, who had been spending most of his time in Haiti since the quake, was running a large camp for internally displaced persons in the foothills of a wealthy suburb of Port-au-Prince, on what had been the city's lone golf course. Nearly 60,000 poor and middle-class Haitians, most from Haiti's devastated capital, had migrated here, pouring over the crumbled walls of the exclusive country club, and established a spontaneous and overcrowded city of crude dwellings fashioned from plastic sheeting.
Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development.Weekly Twitter Round UpUS NGOs say foreign aid funding cuts will have dire impact on world's poor: http://t.co/U15eY3A
InterAction condemns the alleged staging of an immunization campaign in Pakistan by the U.S. government in order to gather information for counterterrorism purposes
Sam Worthington radio interview: Millions of Somalis are mired in a deep humanitarian crisis that is now driving thousands of refugees over the border to Kenya daily. Famine is devastating the country, and the process of seeking outside aid is complicated by by an ineffective government, interference by the al-Qaida linked group al-Shabaab, and internal strife.http://www.thetakeaway.org/2011/jul/22/famine-and-somalia-challenges-providing-aid-failed-state/
