Humanitarian aid
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Somalia
How Europe can help
16 August 20113ABC Madrid -
International Aid
How to really help Somalia
28 July 2011PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Humanitarian aid
The problem with Pakistan
19 August 20102Presseurop -
15 January 2010PresseuropDe Standaard
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Haiti
A manmade disaster
14 January 20102The Guardian London -
Health
Patently cruel
19 June 2009De Volkskrant Amsterdam
No more talk: Europe must act now to relieve famine in the Horn of Africa. It can start by helping to restore order in a country racked by decades of civil war. 
Three weeks after the Pakistan floods claimed their first victims, Europe is finally reacting. Is this a case of complacency or prejudice, or is there a deeper malaise? 
As the international community scrambles to the aid of Haiti after the January 12th earthquake, Peter Hallward in the Guardian points out its complicity in the island’s enduring economic devastation, which leaves hundreds of thousands all too easily exposed to large-scale natural disaster. 
European customs often seize medicines bound for developing countries on the basis of suspected violation of patent rights. Humanitarian organisations denounce this practice which, they argue, benefits pharmaceutical companies to the detriment of the world's poor.