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Geldof's spirited denials (he called the BBC a "rotten old cherry" and said there was not a "shred" of evidence to support the claim) drew support from NGOs that worked in Ethiopia at the time, along with those who remember the miseries of the famine which killed hundreds of thousands of people, as well as the gumption Geldof showed by pulling together rock stars from the U.S and Britain to help feed the victims. In the days since, however, Geldof has raised eyebrows for his apparent refusal to acknowledge the possibility that money may have been skimmed...
...sense of obligation to "save Africa" and their sense of guilt for somehow "allowing" the famine to happen. But the reality was far more complex. While Ethiopia was indeed in the grip of a drought, Mengistu Haile Mariam's government, which was fighting an insurgency at the time, restricted NGOs from helping famine victims in certain areas and forcibly moved hundreds of thousands of people from one place to another in a repeat of Soviet-era collectivization campaigns, exacerbating their plight. The rebels, who came to power years later, are partly responsible for people's suffering, too. A CIA report...
...those in need as possible, rather than working through governments or what it calls "armed actors." This week, it went after NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen after he made a seemingly innocuous remark about wanting to "improve the frequency and quality of the dialogue between NATO and the NGOs" in Afghanistan. He went on to say that "hard power" must be combined with "soft power," an idea that infuriates Doctors Without Borders, which said in response that it "never works alongside, or partners with, any military strategy...
Meanwhile, de la Soudière is working to build as extensive a network as possible of local NGOs and volunteers. This not only creates a larger army of detectives to find relatives and advocate for children's best interests, but it also helps these aid workers persuade relatives and foster families to take children in, because they know they'll have a big system of support when they...
...January earthquake, which the Haitian government says killed more than 200,000 people, left thousands of children orphaned or separated from their families. But UNICEF and its partner NGOs in the registry effort, including Save the Children, Catholic Relief Services and Relief International, insist that it's better for aid workers to help identify and make the effort to locate those kids' relatives - and place them in temporary foster-style care with network-monitored and supported families - than to hand them over to orphanages. The vast majority of the children, they say, have an immediate or extended family member...