Humanitarian aid
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News in brief: ‘European poverty explosion worries Red Cross’
31 January 20131791PresseuropLe Temps -
Somalia: How Europe can help
16 August 20111543 ABC Madrid -
Humanitarian aid: The problem with Pakistan
19 August 2010262 Presseurop -
Haiti: EU reaction-time criticized
15 January 2010PresseuropDe Standaard -
Haiti: A manmade disaster
14 January 2010652 The Guardian London -
Health: Patently cruel
19 June 200914 De 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.