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Turkey's Disaster Management Authority (AFAD) is tasked with coordinating search, rescue and aid efforts in response to earthquakes, floods, forest fires and other emergencies. [L1N34Q1CN]

Reuters

Turkey-Syria earthquake: Assad blames west as agencies struggle to get aid to his desperate people

It didn’t take long for Syria’s Assad regime to seek political and economic benefit from the devastation of an earthquake. As emergency services were reaching victims of the 7.8-magnitude tremor on February 6, regime-linked organisations demanded governments “immediately end the siege and unilateral coercive economic sanctions imposed on Syria and…

The Conversation

South Sudan ‘failed’ by international aid system as food crisis intensifies

Catholic charity Cafod says local NGOs are best placed to respond on the frontline but are being cut out of the process

The Guardian - UK

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Iran: ‘Sham’ courts hand out severe sentences for passive protest

After months of strikes and protests in Iran, thousands of people have been arrested and now face harsh sentences by the courts, including death. Activists, journalists and lawyers have received long prison terms for supporting the demonstrations or expressing their opposition to the regime, even passively. Activists and NGOs say…

France 24

French Foreign Minister visits Mideast in bid to reinforce regional friendships

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna is in Riyadh this Thursday as part of a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in a bid to strengthen partnerships in the Middle East amid regional and international instability.

Radio France Internationale

Italy ‘complicit’ in crimes for renewing pact with Libya: NGOs

The Memorandum of Understanding on Migration has been renewed despite mounting evidence of crimes against humanity.

Al Jazeera

Council of Europe urges Italy to scrap or change migration decree

Italy should scrap or rewrite its new anti-immigration decree aimed at curtailing NGO rescue ships to ensure it "fully complies" with human rights and international law obligations, the Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner said.

Reuters

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New US Restrictions against Taliban for Bans on Women

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced new visa restrictions against the Taliban Wednesday in response to bans on employment and education for women in Afghanistan. "I am taking action today to impose additional visa restrictions on certain current or former Taliban members, members of non-state security groups, and other individuals…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Two years after the coup, Myanmar's junta fights opposition with fire

It's been two years since the military junta in Myanmar seized power, ousting the country's democratically elected leaders in a coup d'état. Since February 1, 2021, widespread protests have raged around the country and a fierce opposition movement has formed. But the junta is brutally repressing dissent. One of their…

France 24

Nicholas Goldberg: Business is the most trusted institution? Are you kidding me?

You'd think that people would have learned their lesson after years of financial industry gimmickry, corporate tax avoidance and mistreatment of workers.

Los Angeles Times

UN: Taliban ban on women aid workers is potential death blow

The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that the Taliban's ban on women aid workers in Afghanistan is “a potential death blow” to many important humanitarian programs

The Independent UK

Rohingya refugees risk death at sea to escape Bangladesh camps

In early December, a video showing Rohingyas on an overcrowded makeshift boat made the rounds on social networks. It was drifting in the Andaman Sea, between Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia and Thailand, but no country came to its rescue – despite appeals from NGOs and the UN. Many boats meet the…

France 24

UK Cyber-chiefs Warn Key Sectors About Russia, Iran Attacks

UK cyber-security chiefs on Thursday warned that Russia and Iran were increasingly targeting government officials, journalists and NGOs with so-called "spear-fishing" attacks in order to "compromise sensitive systems". The National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) urged those in such roles to familiarize themselves with material on its website explaining the techniques…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Taliban working on guidelines for women NGO workers: UN says

UN aid chief Martin Griffiths met Taliban officials in a bid to push them to further relax the ban on women workers.

Al Jazeera

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Reuters

Venezuela's National Assembly approves first reading of bill to regulate NGOs

Venezuela's National Assembly on Tuesday passed a first reading of a bill to regulate and inspect non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the South American country, which has caused uproar among activists.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Aid Chief Raises Women’s Rights Concerns with Taliban in Afghan Capital

The United Nations' aid chief visited Kabul on Monday and raised concerns over women's education and work with the Taliban administration's acting minister of foreign affairs, an Afghan ministry statement said. The Taliban-run administration last month ordered NGOs not to allow most female employees to work, prompting many aid agencies…

The Guardian - UK

People-smugglers ‘recruiting Russian captains for migrant boats to Italy’

Russians have replaced Ukrainians since the war began and at least 14 have been arrested in Italy, NGOs claim

Al Jazeera

UN envoy says ‘progress’ made on Afghan women’s rights

Amina Mohammed, who held talks with the Taliban tells Al Jazeera some progress made but much remains to be done.

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Salon

Lula's environmental challenge

For environmental protections in Brazil, a long rebuilding process lies ahead

Foreign Policy

Taliban ‘Men-Only’ Aid Edict Divides Charity Community

The World Food Program seems poised to carry on, driving NGOs to call it quits on aid.

Al Jazeera

NGOs resume some Afghan operations with women workers

Three foreign aid groups restore work in health sector after Taliban bans women from working with NGOs in Afghanistan.

Reuters

Italy's migrant rescue ship decree should be scrapped - Catholic bishop

Italy's new anti-immigration decree that aims to curtail NGO rescue ships should be scrapped as it violates international law, a top Catholic bishop said, in an unusually blunt attack against Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government.

Al Jazeera

NGOs lament ‘human cost’ of Italy’s push to curb refugee arrivals

Critics say policies pursued by Italy’s new government will lead to more deaths in the Mediterranean.

Newslaundry

No caste certificate, no admission: Why Chhattisgarh’s displaced Adivasi children can’t go to school

This is Part III in the NL Sena series on Adivasis displaced from Chhattisgarh who now live in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Read Parts I and II here.

Fortune

A survey of 32,000 people found that business is more trusted than NGOs, government, and the media

'Business is the sole institution seen as competent and ethical.'

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