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...That same adjective might seem to apply to the failure of the Afghan government to include in its delegation even one woman. When Orsana Ashraf, the founder of the nongovernmental organization Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan, first heard about the London conference, she began to lobby officials to ask that women's views be properly represented. The response, she says: "They said this isn't ladies' business; this is about security...
...many students’ minds, especially those interested in global health and social justice issues,” Haverkamp said, explaining why SAGHAH is part of the “Harvard for Haiti” campaign. Whereas faculty-based organizations such as Partners In Health and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative have the resources to provide on-site medical aid, student groups in SAGHAH are seeking to develop feasible response efforts on campus...
...facilitate the communication and coordination end of PIH's operation, along with the operation of other Harvard-affiliated health institutions, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative—a University-wide academic and research center for response to humanitarian crises—is working with its partners at Harvard, PIH, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital by providing information to them after assessing Haiti's needs...
...Merkel, Afghanistan is an even trickier diplomatic and economic mire. Germany is a generous donor of humanitarian aid there - as it is elsewhere in the developing world. But at 4,300 troops, Germany also provides the third largest contingent of forces in the theater, after the U.S. and Britain. In December the German parliament voted to extend the deployment in Afghanistan for another year, and the European allies - as U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has acknowledged - have reduced the number of so-called caveats that limit when troops may be deployed in combat. (Most German troops, for example, have been...
...even comparatively low casualty figures are shocking for many in Germany - a country that eschewed armed conflict for more than 50 years - who had persuaded themselves that their nation's role was solely humanitarian. Then in September, German forces called in a U.S. air strike in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan to destroy oil tankers that had been hijacked by the Taliban. Some 140 people were killed, many of them civilians. That changed the perception of the mission among the German public and politicians alike. Franz Josef Jung, who was Defense Minister at the time of the bombing, resigned over...