From the World & Comment section of the Toronto Star, Tuesday, December 18, 2007, pages AA, AA4, an article about international donors pledging aid for the West Bank and Gaza:
$7.4B PLEDGED FOR PEACE
Israel urged to ease blockade on Palestinians as funds for recovery of West Bank, Gaza pour in
Anne Gearan
Associated Press
Paris -Led by Europe, international donors yesterday [...]
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International Assistance for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Posted in Condoleezza Rice, European Union, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East, Mideast, Russia, Tony Blair, United Nations, United States, West Bank, World Bank, aid, blockade, humanitarian aid, international, militants, peace, peace talks, peacemakers, poverty, roadblocks, suicide bombings, war, tagged Arab, GazaStrip, humanitarian aid, international, Israel, Jewish, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian, peace, peace talks, poverty, roadblocks, suicide bombings, United Nations, war, West Bank on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Somalia: War and Humanitarian Aid
Posted in Africa, Horn Relief, Islamist movement, Oxfam, Somalia, displaced people, humanitarian aid, inter-clan fighting, peace talks, warlords, tagged , Africa, African troops, aid workers, clans, conflict, dictator, disease, displaced persons, Ethiopia, Horn Relief, Human Rights Watch, humanitarian organizations, insurgents, inter-clan fighting, interim government, Islamist movement, misery, Mogadishu, Oxfam, peace talks, poor, rape, sanitation, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, starvation, United Nations, warlords on November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From the Tuesday, September 18, 2007, Toronto Star, World & Comment section, pages AA-AA4, an article about the displacement and misery of thousands of people in Somalia.
As Oxfam is one of the humanitarian organizations mentioned in the article, here is the web address of the Take Action page at Oxfam, which includes 10 actions you can [...]
Summary of Climate Change Report
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From the StopGlobalWarming.org website, http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_read.asp?id=6385211172007 , here is a brief summary of the “Synthesis Report” from the International Panel on Climate Change’s Climate Change 2007 report. It is a scary prophecy of what we can expect if we do nothing. So we all need to start doing our bit — now.
The three other sections of [...]
