The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Land Rover has premiered the first of a series of short films showing how local teams are the future of emergency response efforts. The first-of-its-kind four-part series, On the ground: Humanitarians…
IT is not only global charities and governments helping to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on the Indian sub-continent. Friends of India Network, tiny by comparison to UNICEF and Save the Children, is a Ballarat-based community group that aims to bring residents of Indian origin…
UNICEF Australia has today launched the India COVID-19 Crisis Appeal to provide lifesaving assistance to people affected by the deadliest days of the of the pandemic so far in India. The outbreak is almost four-times the size of the first wave, with daily cases surging to more than 362,000 and the virus is spreading much…
UNICEF has sent critical lifesaving supplies, including 3,000 oxygen concentrators, diagnostic tests, medical kits, and other equipment to help India in its battle with a deadly wave of COVID-19. Dr. Yasmin Haque, UNICEF Representative in India said COVID-19 is severely overstraining the…
AID organisations, including Save the Children, have called on governments to give a single day’s military spending to fight hunger. Only 26 hours of global military spending is enough to cover the $US5.5 billion ($AU7.1 billion) needed to help those most at…
Today on World Water Day, WaterAid releases a new report: “Turn the tide: The state of the world’s water 2021”, which shows how people are losing access to clean water as longer droughts dry up springs, seawater infiltrates groundwater supplies and landslides…
Amnesty International Australia today [8th of March, 2020] welcomed the suspension of security assistance with Myanmar in the wake of the military coup on February 1, and called for further targeted multilateral sanctions against senior officials. “The Myanmar military has a well-documented…
Women in low and middle-income countries face deeply held cultural norms that prevent them from safely accessing vital eye care services. Currently, 55 per cent of the world’s blind are women. Women are eight per cent more likely to be blind than…
When Eswatini’s former Prime Minister Mr Ambrose Dlamini died of COVID-19 in December 2020, followed shortly thereafter by the death of several politicians and notable personalities in January this year, the Government was compelled to re-enforce strict partial lockdown rules to contain…
Australia must stop blocking landmark proposal that would improve access to COVID-19 treatments and vaccines. Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is urging the Australian government to support a proposal which would waive certain intellectual property on COVID-19 medical tools and technologies until…
