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The St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox Sobor is a central point for Ukrainian religious and cultural life in Calgary, serving the city's large Ukrainian community. Since its founding, the parish has been a pillar for the faithful, particularly for Ukrainian immigration to the Alberta region.
The temple is notable for its traditional Orthodox architecture, featuring five distinct copper-clad domes ("banyas") that create a striking silhouette. Beyond being a place of worship, the Sobor operates as a Cultural Centre, housing various organizations such as the Ukrainian Women's Association, a Ukrainian school, a library, and the Ukrainian Museum of Canada (Calgary Collection).
Recently, the Sobor has gained significant recognition for its active role in Ukrainian Humanitarian Aid, providing essential support (food, clothing, assistance) to Ukrainian newcomers and refugees in Calgary.
Almost 90% of Gaza’s population entirely dependent on aid: UNRWA
UNRWA says the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains catastrophic, despite the ceasefire [which has been broken countless times by Israel.]
The UN agency added that more than 90 percent of Gaza’s population is entirely dependent on aid, with many receiving only one meal every 24 hours.
An average of 170 trucks enter the Strip daily, a number far below the minimum required to meet basic needs. - aljazeera.comn
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The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally designed as a troop, medevac, and cargo transport aircraft.
The versatile airframe has found uses in other roles, including as a gunship (AC-130), for airborne assault, search and rescue, scientific research support, weather reconnaissance, aerial refueling, maritime patrol, and aerial firefighting. It is now the main tactical airlifter for many military forces worldwide. More than 40 variants of the Hercules, including civilian versions marketed as the Lockheed L-100, operate in more than 60 nations.
The C-130 entered service with the U.S. in 1956, followed by Australia and many other nations. During its years of service, the Hercules has participated in numerous military, civilian and humanitarian aid operations. In 2007, the transport became the fifth aircraft to mark 50 years of continuous service with its original primary customer, which for the C-130 is the United States Air Force. The C-130 is the longest continuously produced military aircraft at more than 60 years, with the updated Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules being produced as of 2023.
C-130H Identical to the Echo variant but with more powerful Allison T56-A-15 turboprop engines. Introduced in Jun. 1974 with 308 ordered.
The doll is named Ling and is made by a company called Karito--there are 6 dolls of different ethnic heritages who come with passports and a book that has a story and journal which creates a personality for each individual doll. Ling is Chinese--I've already gotten another doll for Genevieve, Pita from Mexico. Karito has its own website for kids where they can play games (they win points which allows them to contribute to humanitarian projects they'd like to help), read and post blogs & messages, learn about other countries, get their own online passport which gets stamped when games are played, and are encouraged to try to "save the world" by helping others--another important feature is that the children can pick one of four designated charities and donate 3% of the doll's price.
Photos of the Pita from Mexico doll:
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One of the thousands of American Red Cross volunteers working tirelessly to bring service delivery to those affected by the recent hurricanes.
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A UH-1Y approaches a park landing zone in Yuma, Arizona during a humanitarian assistance/disaster relief training event as part of WTI 1-21. Note the Army (or Air Force?) exchange pilot in the right seat.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a meeting with National Security Advisor to the President of the United States Jake Sullivan who is on a visit to Ukraine.
The Head of State thanked the Advisor to the U.S. President Joseph Biden for the support to our country at a difficult time, when Russia carried out a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The parties discussed the issues of further support for Ukraine from the U.S. for the defense and liberation of its territory from the occupiers, increasing the capabilities of our state to protect critical infrastructure, financial and humanitarian support, strengthening sanctions against the aggressor state of the Russian Federation, and consolidating international support for Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy also presented Jake Sullivan with the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise of the II degree, which he was awarded for significant personal merits in strengthening interstate cooperation, and support for the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
The President noted that he was very pleased to present this order to Jake Sullivan.
The Advisor to the U.S. President thanked for the high award and said that it was an honor for him to receive it.
The Head of State also awarded Senior Director for Europe at the U.S. National Security Council Amanda Sloat with the Order of Merit of the III degree.
An old scientific rover modified by "Source" Atcivists to help native populations of planets resist Megacorporation and Empires' "Terraformation" programs.
"Source" is a group of activists considered to be criminals or "Eco-Terrorists" by most political Factions. Their success in Humanitatrian operations are however undeniable.
Dealing with these activists is often very dangerous and puts the Large corporations and Empires in a state of political stress.
Motivated by "The Legonator" and "Commander Hawk" 's recent microbuilds
Historical research reveals that diverse political rationalities have framed the political means and objectives of state frontiers and borders, just as the difficult work of making borders actual has drawn upon a great variety of technologies
The single word ”border” conceals a multiplicity and implies a constancy where genealogical investigation uncovers mutation and descent. Historical research reveals that diverse political rationalities have framed the political means and objectives of state frontiers and borders, just as the difficult work of making borders actual has drawn upon a great variety of technologies and heterogeneous administrative practices, ranging from maps of the territory, the creation of specialized border officials, and architectures of fortification to today’s experimentation with bio- digitalized forms of surveillance. This chapter argues that we are witnessing a novel development within this history of borders and border-making, what I want to call the emergence of the humanitarian border. While a great deal has been written about the militarization, securitization and fortification of borders today, there is far less consideration of the humanitarianization of borders. But if the investment of border regimes by biometric technologies rightly warrants being treated as an event within the history of the making and remaking of borders (Amoore 2006), then arguably so too does the reinvention of the border as a space of humanitarian government.
Under what conditions are we seeing the rise of humanitarian borders? The emergence of the humanitarian border goes hand in hand with the move which has made state frontiers into privileged symbolic and regulatory instruments within strategies of migration control. It is part of a much wider trend that has been dubbed the ”rebordering” of political and territorial space (Andreas and Biersteker 2003). The humanitarian border emerges once it becomes established that border crossing has become, for thousands of migrants seeking, for a variety of reasons, to access the territories of the global North, a matter of life and death. It crystallizes as a way of governing this novel and disturbing situation,and compensating for the social violence embodied in the regime of migration control.The idea of a humanitarian border might sound at first counterintuitive or even oxymoronic. After all, we often think of contemporary humanitarianism as a force that, operating in the name of the universal but endangered subject of humanity, transcends the walled space of the inter-national system. This is, of course, quite valid. Yet it would be a mistake to draw any simple equation between humanitarian projects and what Deleuze and Guattari would call logics of deterritoralization. While humanitarian programmes might unsettle certain norms of statehood, it is important to recognize the ways in which the exercise of humanitarian power is connected to the actualization of new spaces. Whether by its redefinition of certain locales as humanitarian ”zones” and crises as ”emergencies” (Calhoun 2004), the authority it confers on certain experts to move rapidly across networks of aid and intervention, or its will to designate those populating these zones as ”victims,” it seems justified to follow Debrix’s (1998) observation that humanitarianism implies reterritorialization on top of deterritorialization. Humanitarian zones can materialize in various situations – in conflict zones, amidst the relief of famine, and against the backdrop of state failure. But the case that interests me in what follows is a specific one: a situation where the actual borders of states and gateways to the territory become themselves zones of humanitarian government. Understanding the consequences of this is paramount, since it has an important bearing on what is often termed the securitization of borders and citizenship.
Foucault and Frontiers
It is probably fair to say that the theme of frontiers is largely absent from the two courses that are today read together as Foucault’s lectures on ”governmentality” (Foucault 1991; 2007; 2008). This is not to suggest that frontiers receive no mention at all. Within these lectures we certainly encounter passing remarks on the theme. For instance, Foucault speaks at one point of ”the administrative state, born in the territoriality of national boundaries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and corresponding to a society of regulation and discipline” (Foucault 1991: 104).1 Elsewhere, he notes how the calculation and demarcation of new frontiers served as one of the practical elements of military-diplomatic technology, a machine he associates with the government of Europe in the image of a balance of power and according to the governmental logic of raison d’état. ”When the diplomats, the ambassadors who negotiated the treaty of Westphalia, received instructions from their government, they were explicitly advised to ensure that the new frontiers, the distribution of states, the new relationships to be established between the German states and the Empire, and the zones of influence of France, Sweden, and Austria be established in terms of a principle: to maintain a balance between the different European states” (Foucault 2007: 297).
But these are only hints of what significance the question of frontiers might have within the different technologies of power which Foucault sought to analyze. They are only fragmentary reflections on the place borders and frontiers might occupy within the genealogy of the modern state which Foucault outlines with his research into governmentality.2
Why was Foucault apparently not particularly interested in borders when he composed these lectures? One possible answer is suggested by Elden’s careful and important work on power-knowledge and territory. Elden takes issue with Foucault for the way in which he discusses territorial rule largely as a foil which allows him to provide a more fully-worked out account of governmentality and its administration of population. Despite the fact that the term appears prominently in the title of Foucault’s lectures, ”the issue of territory continually emerges only to be repeatedly marginalized, eclipsed, and underplayed” (Elden 2007: 1). Because Foucault fails to reckon more fully with the many ways in which the production of territory – and most crucially its demarcation by practices of frontier marking and control – serves as a precondition for the government of population, it is not surprising that the question of frontiers occupies little space in his narrative.But there is another explanation for the relative absence of questions of frontiers in Foucault’s writing on governmentality. And here we have to acknowledge that, framed as it is previously, this is a problematic question. For it risks the kind of retrospective fallacy which projects a set of very contemporary issues and concerns onto Foucault’s time. It is probably fair to speculate that frontiers and border security was not a political issue during the 1970s in the way that it is today in many western states. ”Borders” had yet to be constituted as a sort of meta-issue, capable of condensing a whole complex of political fears and concerns, including globalization, the loss of sovereignty, terrorism, trafficking and unchecked immigration. The question of the welfare state certainly was an issue, perhaps even a meta-issue, when Foucault was lecturing, and it is perhaps not coincidental that he should devote so much space to the examination of pastoralism. But not the border. The point is not to suggest that Foucault’s work evolved in close,
Humanitarian Government
Before I address the question of the humanitarian border, it is necessary to explain what I understand by the humanitarian. Here my thinking has been shaped by recent work that engages the humanitarian not as a set of ideas and ideologies, nor simply as the activity of certain nongovernmental actors and organizations, but as a complex domain possessing specific forms of governmental reason. Fassin’s work on this theme is particularly important. Fassin demonstrates that humanitarianism can be fruitfully connected to the broader field of government which Foucault outlined, where government is not a necessary attribute of states but a rationalized activity than can be carried out by all sorts of agents, in various contexts, and towards multiple ends. At its core, ”Humanitarian government can be defined as the administration of human collectivities in the name of a higher moral principle which sees the preservation of life and the alleviation of suffering as the highest value of action” (Fassin 2007: 151). As he goes on to stress, the value of such a definition is that we do not see a particular state, or a non-state form such as a nongovernmental organization, as the necessary agent of humanitarian action. Instead, it becomes possible to think in terms of a complex assemblage, comprising particular forms of humanitarian.reason, specific forms of authority (medical, legal, spiritual) but also certain technologies of government – such as mechanisms for raising funds and training volunteers, administering aid and shelter, documenting injustice, and publicizing abuse. Seen from this angle humanitarianism appears as a much more supple, protean thing. Crucially, it opens up our ability to perceive ”a broader political and moral logic at work both within and outside state forms” (ibid.).
If the humanitarian can be situated in relation to the analytics of government, it can also be contextualized in relation to the biopolitical. ”Not only did the last century see the emergence of regimes committed to the physical destruction of populations,” observes Redfield, ”but also of entities devoted to monitoring and assisting populations in maintaining their physical existence, even while protesting the necessity of such an action and the failure of anyone to do much more than this bare minimum” (2005: 329). It is this ”minimalist biopolitics,” as Redfield puts it, that will be so characteristic of the humanitarian. And here the accent should be placed on the adjective “minimalist” if we are not to commit the kind of move which I criticized above, namely collapsing everything new into existing Foucauldian categories. It is important to regard contemporary humanitarianism as a novel formation and a site of ambivalence and undecideability, and not just as one more instance of what Hardt and Negri (2000) might call global “biopolitical production.”The Birth of the Humanitarian Border
In a press release issued on June 29, 2007, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) publicized a visit which its then Director General, Brunson McKinley, was about to make to a ”reception centre for migrants” on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa (IOM 2007). The Director General is quoted as saying: ”Many more boats will probably arrive on Lampedusa over the summer with their desperate human cargo and we have to ensure we can adequately respond to their immediate needs.... This is why IOM will continue to work closely with the Italian government, the Italian Red Cross, UNHCR and other partners to provide appropriate humanitarian responses to irregular migrants and asylum seekers reaching the island.”
The same press release observes that IOM’s work with its ”partners” was part of a wider effort to improve the administration of the ”reception” (the word ”detention” is conspicuously absent) and ”repatriation” of ”irregular migrants” in Italy. Reception centers were being expanded, and problems of overcrowding alleviated. The statement goes on to observe that IOM had opened its office on Lampedusa in April 2006. Since that time ”Forced returns from Lampedusa [had] stopped.”
Lampedusa is a small Italian island located some 200 km south of Sicily and 300 km to the north of Libya. Its geographical location provides a clue as to how it is that in 2004 this Italian outpost first entered the spotlight of European and even world public attention, becoming a potent signifier for anxieties about an international migration crisis (Andrijasevic 2006). For it was then that this Italian holiday destination became the main point of arrival for boats carrying migrants from Libya to Italy. That year more than 10,000 migrants are reported to have passed through the ”temporary stay and assistance centre” (CPTA) the Italian state maintains on the island. The vast majority had arrived in overcrowded, makeshift boats after a perilous sea journey lasting up to several weeks. Usually these boats
are intercepted in Italian waters by the Italian border guards and the migrants transferred to the holding center on the island. Following detention, which can last for more than a month, they are either transferred to other CPTAs in Sicily and southern Italy, or expelled to Libya.Finally, there is a point to be made about humanitarianism, power and order. Those looking to locate contemporary humanitarianism within a bigger picture would perhaps follow the lead of Hardt and Negri. As these theorists of ”Empire” see things, NGOs like Amnesty International and Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) are, contrary to their own best intentions, implicated in global order. As agents of ”moral intervention” who, because they participate in the construction of emergency, ”prefigure the state of exception from below,” these actors serve as the preeminent ”frontline force of imperial intervention.” As such, Hardt and Negri see humanitarianism as ”completely immersed in the biopolitical context of the constitution of Empire” (Hardt and Negri 2000: 36).Humanitarianism, Borders, Politics
Foucauldian writing about borders has mirrored the wider field of governmentality studies in at least one respect. While it has produced some fascinating and insightful accounts of contemporary strategies and technologies of border-making and border policing, it has tended to confine its attention to official and often state-sanctioned projects. Political dynamics and political acts have certainly not been ignored. But little attention has been paid to the possibility that politics and resistance operate not just in an extrinsic relationship to contemporary regimes, but within them.12 To date this literature has largely failed to view politics as something constitutive and productive of border regimes and technologies. That is to say, there is little appreciation of the ways in which movements of opposition, and those particular kinds of resistance which Foucault calls ”counter conduct,” can operate not externally to modes of bordering but by means of ”a series of exchanges” and ”reciprocal supports” (Foucault 2007: 355).
There is a certain paradox involved when we speak of Foucault and frontiers. In certain key respects it could be said that Foucault is one of our most eminent and original theorists of bordering. For at the heart of one of his most widely read works – namely Discipline and Punish – what does one
find if not the question of power and how its modalities should be studied by focusing on practices of partitionment, segmentation, division, enclosure; practices that will underpin the ordering and policing of ever more aspects of the life of populations from the nineteenth century onwards. But while Foucault is interested in a range of practices which clearly pertain to the question of bordering understood in a somewhat general sense, one thing the reading of his lectures on security, governmentality and biopolitics reveals is that he had little to say explicitly about the specific forms of bordering associated with the government of the state. To put it differently, Foucault dealt at length with what we might call the microphysics of bordering, but much less with the place of borders considered at the level of tactics and strategies of governmentality.Recent literature has begun to address this imbalance, demonstrating that many of Foucault’s concepts are useful and important for understanding what kinds of power relations and governmental regimes are at stake in contemporary projects which are re-making state borders amidst renewed political concerns over things like terrorism and illegal immigration. However, the overarching theme of this chapter has been the need for caution when linking Foucault’s concepts to the study of borders and frontiers today. While analytics like biopolitics, discipline and neoliberalism offer all manner of insights, we need to avoid the trap which sees Foucault’s toolbox as something ready-made for any given situation. The challenge of understanding the emergent requires the development of new theoretical tools, not to mention the sharpening of older, well-used implements. With this end in mind the chapter has proposed the idea of the humanitarian border as a way of registering an event within the genealogy of the frontier, but also, although I have not developed it here, within the genealogy of citizenship.
What I have presented previously is only a very cursory overview of certain features of the humanitarianization of borders, most notably its inscription within regimes of knowledge, and its constitutive relationship to politics. In future research it would be interesting to undertake a fuller mapping of the humanitarian border in relation to certain trajectories of government. While we saw how themes of biopolitical and neoliberal government are pertinent in understanding the contemporary management of spaces like the detention center, it would seem especially relevant to consider the salience of pastoralism. Pastoral power has received far less attention within studies of governmentality than, say, discipline or liberal government (but see Dean 1999; Golder 2007; Hindess 1996; Lippert 2004). But here again, I suspect, it will be important to revise our concepts in the light of emergent practices and rationalities. For the ways in which NGOs and humanitarians engage in the governance of migrants and refugees today have changed quite significantly from the kinds of networks of care, self-examination and salvation which Foucault identified with pastoralism. For instance, and to take but one example, the pastoral care of migrants, whether in situations of sanctuary or detention, is not organized as a life-encompassing, permanent activity as it was for the church, or later, in a secular version, the welfare state. Instead, it is a temporary and ad hoc intervention. Just as Foucault’s notion of neo-liberalism was intended to register important transformations within the genealogy of liberal government, it may prove useful to think in terms of the neo-pastoral when we try to make better sense of the phenomenon of humanitarian government at/of borders, and of many other situations as well.
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The Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft. The C-130J is a comprehensive update of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, with new engines, flight deck, and other systems. The Hercules family has the longest continuous production run of any military aircraft in history. During more than 60 years of service, the family has participated in military, civilian, and humanitarian aid operations. The Hercules has outlived several planned successor designs, most notably the Advanced Medium STOL Transport contestants.
The C-130J is the newest version of the Hercules and the only model still in production. Externally similar to the classic Hercules in general appearance, the J-model features considerably updated technology. These differences include new Rolls-Royce AE 2100 D3 turboprop engines with Dowty R391 composite scimitar propellers, digital avionics (including head-up displays (HUDs) for each pilot), and reduced crew requirements. These changes have improved performance over its C-130E/H predecessors, such as 40% greater range, 21% higher maximum speed, and 41% shorter takeoff distance.
As a cargo and airlift aircraft, the C-130J's crew includes two pilots and one loadmaster (no navigator or flight engineer), while specialized USAF variants (e.g., AC-130J, EC-130J, MC-130J, HC-130J, WC-130J) may have larger crews, such as navigators/Combat Systems Officers or other specialized officer and enlisted air crew. The U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J uses a crew chief for expeditionary operations. The C-130J's cargo compartment is approximately 41 feet (12.5 m) long, 9 feet (2.74 m) high, and 10 feet (3.05 m) wide, and loading is from the rear of the fuselage. The aircraft can also be configured with the "enhanced cargo handling system". The system consists of a computerized loadmaster's station from which the user can remotely control the under-floor winch and also configure the flip-floor system to palletized roller or flat-floor cargo handling. Initially developed for the USAF, this system enables rapid role changes to be carried out and so extends the C-130J's time available to complete taskings.
Built in 1925 as Lowther Junior High this former school building now houses several non-profit organizations.
Sara Pantuliano, Managing Director, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom, speaking during the session, Transforming Humanitarian Finance, at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 25, 2018. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
~ Explored : September 19. 2011 ~
"Adventure in the Land of the Ancient Gods"
LADAKH : Day 5
Spectators watch a Masked dance at the Tse Chu or Hemis festival in Ladakh, India
Hemis festival (Tse-Chu Festival) is one of the most famous annual monastic festivals in Ladakh which falls in late June, or the first half of July, precisely on the tenth day of lunar month in the Tibetan calendar.
The event draw spectators from among the local populace in Ladakh region in great numbers for attending these auspicious events which promises spiritual benefits aside the enjoyment of the party atmosphere for the foreign tourists. Guesstimate that Perhaps more than 2000 people attended this event. Huge crowds that gather heighten the sense of the occasion.
The festival is celebrated to mark the birth of Guru Padmasambhava (Guru Rimpoche), popularly known as second Buddha who responsible for spreading Buddhism in the Tibetan world.
All through the festival, traditional dances are performed by masked monks, called chhams which are accompanied by cymbals, drums, trumpets and traditional clothing portraying gods and demons and depicting triumph of good over evil. The whole series of the dances are dedicated to Guru Padmasambhava, who according to the mythology fought with the demons to spare the people of this place.
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A C-130 Hercules takes off from Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Nov. 4, 2014, en route to Monrovia, Liberia. The aircraft was carrying 8 tons of humanitarian aid and military supplies in support of Operation United Assistance, the U.S. Agency for International Development-led, whole-of-government effort to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer/Released)
U.S. Army parachute riggers from the 11th Quartermaster Company assemble 40 container delivery system bundles of water onto a C-17 Globemaster III for a humanitarian airdrop over the area if Amirli, Iraq Aug. 30, 2014. Two C-17s dropped 79 bundles of fresh drinking water totaling 7,513 gallons. In addition, two C-130 Hercules dropped 30 bundles containing 3,032 gallons of water and 7,056 Halal Meals Ready to Eat. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel/Released)
More than two-thirds of the world’s land area and more than half of the world’s population do not have direct access to paved roads or runways. This lack of infrastructure presents numerous challenges for worldwide humanitarian relief, natural resource extraction and heavy cargo operations. In most cases, developing these areas to accommodate roads or airways is not an option, so for centuries they’ve remained isolated. To combat these challenges, the Skunk Works team developed a one-of-kind Hybrid Airship that offers large cargo capacity with significant reductions in fuel consumption compared to other air vehicles. All while remaining faster than land and sea transportation systems. Learn more at lockheedmartin.com/hybridairship
A U.S. Navy MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 22, attached to the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), performs humanitarian aid operations Sept, 24, 2017, on the island of Dominica following the landfall of Hurricane Maria. The Department of Defense is supporting United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the lead federal agency, in helping those affected by Hurricane Maria to minimize suffering and is one component of the overall whole-of-government response effort. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Michael Molina) www.dvidshub.net
"Amargi Beyond Borders" (link above) it's a project about a face of the Syrian war. Finally online! Check it out.. E m o t i o n a l
A Sudanese woman and children are pictured in Fanga Suk in East Jebel Marra, South Darfur. An inter-agency mission led by the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), brought approximately half a tonne of food and medical supplies to this area, notoriously difficult to access due to heavy fighting between Government and rebel forces.
Photo ID 467673. 23/03/2011. Fanga Suk, Sudan. UN Photo/Olivier Chassot. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
A MARSOC Marine instructs ANA soldiers to set up a security perimeter around a humanitarian aide site in the Village of Ranje Bala, Farah Province Afghanistan Feb 28.
Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force – Afghanistan Media Operations Center
Photo by Staff Sgt. Nicholas Pilch
Date: 02.28.2010
Location: Farah Province, AF
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Humanitarians OR Tormentarians? Why Aren't They Doing Their Job?
April 25th, 2023, marked the day 262nd of my 4th Hunger Strike outside the UNHCR office where Greece seeks to starve me to death and nobody provides Humanitarian Relief. My ultra-thin body is now barely able to sustain life.
Thus, in pursuit of my survival, I had again tried reaching out to the UNHCR office in person to demand support, answers and solutions. But food and support have been denied, answers are not given and solutions have not been offered.
Hence, in my discussions with the UNHCR assistant representative last Friday I was at the end left with no choice but to request a five-way meeting with them and the representatives from the Canadian, the U.S. and the Australian Embassies to find a solution.
But whether they arrange that or not remains to be seen.
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Senior Airman Korrin Nortega, 921st Contingency Response Squadron, inprocesses inbound cargo at COB Panther on North Vernon Municipal Airport in North Vernon, Ind., July 22, 2019, as part of Turbo Distribution 19-03. Nortega and her aerial port counterparts have unloaded more than 450 pallets of humanitarian supplies in less than four days since the exercise began. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. David W. Carbajal)
The EU has taken a leading role in securing an ambitious outcome of the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, in Istanbul. Commission Stylianides is determined to use his mandate to help make humanitarian aid better, safer and more efficient.
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Airmen from the 36th Airlift Squadron at Yokota Air Base, Japan, offload humanitarian aid during Operation Damayan at Tacloban Airfield, Republic of the Philippines, Nov. 18, 2013. Operation Damayan is a humanitarian aid and disaster relief operation led by the Philippine government and supported by a multinational response force. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Jake Bailey/Released)
Getting aid into Doruma is difficult. Traders have been killed on the road into Doruma so aid has to be flown in. UNICEF and Solidarités flew in twenty five tons of tarpaulins, water containers and blankets to protect the thousands of people in the open from respiratory and water borne diseases. The dirt airstrip is not the best there is in Congo. There is only one car in the town, it belongs to the nuns, and it was being repaired ahead of a visit by a delegation of eight bishops. So to move the twenty five tons into town the local Crisis Committee called up teams of youth on bicycles.
Acheminer l’aide à Doruma est un défi monumental. Des commerçants ont été tués sur la route de Doruma ainsi l'aide doit être aéroporté. L'UNICEF et Solidarités ont apporté vingt-cinq tonnes de bâches, bidons d’eau et de couvertures pour protéger des milliers de personnes qui vivent à l’extérieur sans abris contre les maladies respiratoires et maladies hydriques. La piste d'atterrissage est mauvaise et courte. Il y a seulement une voiture dans la ville, elle appartient aux nonnes, et elle était en réparation avant d'une visite par une délégation de huit évêques. En conséquence le comité de crise a organisé des équipes de jeunes à transporter en ville par bicyclettes les vingt-cinq tonnes.
Transportar la ayuda a Doruma es un reto monumental. Se ha matado a comerciantes sobre la carretera de Doruma así l' ayuda debe ser aerotransportada. UNICEF y Solidarités hemos aportado veinticinco toneladas de toldos, latas de agua y coberturas para proteger a millares de personas que viven exteriormente sin refugios contra las enfermedades respiratorias y enfermedades hídricas. La pista d' aterrizaje es malo y corto. Hay solamente un coche en la ciudad, pertenece a las monjas, y estaba en reparación antes del d' una visita por una delegación de ocho obispos. En consecuencia el Comité de crisis organizó equipos de jóvenes que deben transportarse en ciudad por bicicletas las veinticinco toneladas.
Ferdinand Tambunan and Aldi Tambunan are the children who live and stay here in a small town located on the edge of Lake Toba named Balige. Bathing, swimming and playing in the lake is like a habit for them.
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No time for a pic today.
Quarter to midnight.
Been out drinking with a friend.
Just enough time to wrap myself in a sheet and do stuff.
Obviously the original plan was to do better than this, but seriously, I should be in bed by now.
Human rights activist and storyteller Clemantine Wamariya during a panel discussion at the Everyone a Humanitarian launch night at swissnex San Francisco, Dec. 8, 2016. Photo by swissnexSF/Myleen Hollero.
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Topography around Danang. Monkey Mountain in the background is used by aircraft for bearings. "Charlie Med" with its Dental Company in the center of the picture. Close-up of "Charlie Med" with dental company tent and trailer at right rear of compound. [Tents][Camp][Scene][Vietnam War]
Dental Support in Viet Nam slide set.
Navy Medicine Historical Files Collection - Subject - Vietnam War
Kiribati: Taronga, 16, holds her two-year-old sister Teaborenga while standing in a flooded area in the village of Eita, South Tarawa, Kiribati, Thursday 28 January 2016. Eita is one of many localities on Tarawa atoll that regularly floods at high tide. Sea water cuts access to the main road and children sometimes have to swim or use floating devices to go to school.
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In 2014-15, the European Commission mobilised 43€ million in humanitarian funds to assist refugees, build the resilience of vulnerable populations in arid regions and for a response to a lingering cholera outbreak. ©EU/ECHO/Anouk Delafortrie
Pakistani flood victims take flight aboard Marine Super Stallion (CH-53E) helicopter attached to the HM-165 (REIN), 15th MEU during humanitarian relief efforts in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan (formerly known as the Northwest Frontier province, Pakistan).
15th Marine Expeditionary Unit Public Affairs
Photo by Capt. Paul Duncan
Location:Ghazi, PK
Date Taken:08.17.2010
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The humanitarian situation in Sudan is considered a ‘forgotten crisis’ by the European Commission. It is the scene of a protracted crisis far from the media spotlight. Emergency-levels of malnutrition persist across the country. An estimated 2 million children suffer from acute malnutrition while 4.6 million people face serious food insecurity. In 2016, 1.2 million people have been affected by El Niño induced drought as well as floods. With more than 350 000 mostly Eritrean and South Sudanese refugees on its soil, Sudan is also among the top five host countries of refugees in Africa. In 2016, the European Commission allocated €56 million for life-saving assistance to its partners in Sudan. There is a need to step up humanitarian assistance, but aid organisations operate in a difficult and constrained environment. Copyright: EU/ECHO/Anouk Delafortrie