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Somalia | How Europe can help (ABC, Madrid)

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:49:39 +0100

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. (Article)

Humanitarian aid | The problem with Pakistan (Presseurop, )

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:24:54 +0100

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? (Article)

Haiti | EU reaction-time criticized

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:24:41 +0100

According to Belgian Development Minister Charles Michel of the Mouvement Réformateur (MR), the European ministerial meeting to discuss emergency aid for Haiti scheduled for Monday 18 January will be held "too late." The main subject of the meeting announced by the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton, will be the medium and long-term provision of aid, however, De Standard quotes a radio interview with Michel in which he insists that the current crisis requires "immediate technical coordination in the field." The chaotic situation in the country, the large number of planes arriving with supplies and the devastation of infrastructure have made the coordination of aid to Haiti extremely difficult.

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Haiti | A manmade disaster (The Guardian, London)

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:29:11 +0100

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. (Article)

Health | Patently cruel (De Volkskrant, Amsterdam)

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:09:19 +0100

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. (Article)