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...arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, citing crimes against humanity and war crimes. As pundits and scholars alike have warned, al-Bashir’s retaliation was brutal. He immediately shut down 13 relief agencies, giving no explanation other than allegations that the ICC and these NGOs were conspiring against...
...Harvard Rebels: We know how to rebel. We come in here wanting to be doctors and work for NGOs, but we rebel and become I-bankers. You can try and kill us, but we have no souls...
...just very excited, very thrilled to be here,” Dobriansky said. Dobriansky, who earned her Ph.D. in government from Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1991, will lead a weekly seminar series on transnational issues involving the intersection of governments, businesses, and NGOs. Beginning with a seminar titled “Women as Agents of Change” next Monday, the series is open to undergraduates, as well as KSG students. “Everybody is going to be excited about the seminar series she’s going to put on, particularly...
...affected aid groups- Action Against Hunger, CARE, Save the Children U.S. and Solidarites- to distribute its food. "WFP and other humanitarian agencies simply don't have the capacity to take over their life-saving work. The total number of people who receive WFP food through the four NGOs is 1.1 million," the World Food Programme said in a statement...
Making the product cheaply available isn't the whole answer. Distribution - which is largely the job of health officials and NGOs - has proved particularly difficult. The problem lies in how to successfully monitor the supply chain while still minimizing costs, and so far, no good solution has been found. Vasella recalls visiting a Catholic mission in a Tanzanian village recently and finding that the nuns there were still paying $1 per dose. "We have all the intermediaries marking up the price dramatically," he says. "We've heard reports of some charging as high as $8 a dose to get Coartem...