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1. Philippines: COVID-19 crisis reveals simmering tensions in the regime

   relief operations team. Prior to the Lent holiday, Duterte promised a “Social Amelioration Program” (SAP) ... cash relief payment for the “poorest of the poor”, worth ₱200 billion. However, hardly any family has ... in jail. On April 19, seven relief volunteers, led by left-wing former member of congress Ariel ...

2. Pakistan: Flood aid falls short

   grassroots activists have initiated their own relief work, soliciting funds from ordinary people in Pakistan ... and abroad. The Labour Relief Committee (LRC) brings together the Women Workers Help Line, Labour ... relief camps for displaced people and has helped rescue stranded survivors. On August 13, 10 Indian peace ...

3. Tamils rally for protection, against terror laws

   including Tamil Relief Organisation president Dr Kanapathipillai and Eeelam Tamil Association president ... tsunami relief as a weapon of war, and has stopped any of it getting to the Tamil parts of the island. The ...

4. Haiti: US military occupation worsens suffering, blocks aid

   hampering relief efforts in the process.) US President Barack Obama immediately responded to the tragedy ... deliver the humanitarian relief — the food, water and medicine — that Haitians will need in the coming ... Haiti's infrastructure before the earthquake has hampered relief and rescue efforts. However, this is not, ...

5. Nepal: Poor hit hardest amid disaster

   estimated that at least 600,000 homes were destroyed nationwide by the two quakes. He said emergency relief ... there was a lack of relief materials. Foreign governments and NGOs were working together with the Nepali ... Haiti earthquake relief actually went to the Haitian government. Forty percent went to the US military, ...

6. Philippines: People resist catastrophic climate destruction

   apparently carrying relief supplies. But for days, no aid was delivered. Foreign journalists reported ... response to Super Typhoon Yolanda: to prioritise “law and order” over relief. Soldiers were dispatched to ... ‘authority’ — that is, to protect the property of the rich and business interests. “Tonnes of relief goods and ...

7. Philippines: Police shoot hungry protesters

   Party promised the food relief since January but no relief came. Government agencies supposedly released ... billions of pesos for the El Niño relief, but the farmers believed that these are being used for the ... were doubly brutalised by the injustice committed against them. I demand relief to our hungry ...

8. Pakistan: Socialist environmentalist runs election campaign from jail

   developed against the misappropriation of relief funds. Police responded with brutality and protesters were ...

9. Rob Stary: 'Terror laws used to criminalise supporters of self-determination'

   "anti-terror" laws for raising funds for tsunami relief in the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka. Defence lawyer Rob ...

10. Haiti: FoxNews lies about Cuba's role

    "was leading [the] international relief effort in Haiti", Cuba was "conspicuously absent from ...

11. Corporate vultures circle occupied Haiti

    provide the humanitarian assistance with effective mechanisms to deliver all these relief items to the ... the "international community's" so-called relief effort) to live up to Ban's first ...

12. Philippines eyewitness: 'It was like Zombieland'

    capital, Borongan, we left relief supplies — clothing, some first aid material and a generator — to be ... international media attention. It has also been the focus of official relief operations, although this has not ... helped its residents. Instead, relief supplies remain stockpiled at the airport. Every person I spoke to ...

13. Revolt by the poor shakes Iran

    more than 600 deaths. Along with the failure of the government to provide relief or begin ...

14. US extends war to Pakistan

    used for relief operations during this year’s floods. The October 2 Globe and Mail said drone strikes ...

15. Somalia: The West's role in violence and terror

    intervention” — the post-Cold War justification for Western military adventures. Emergency relief and ...

16. Raqqa largely liberated, Rojava revolution holds commune elections

    other antagonisms in Syria into sharper relief. Since early September, both regime forces and the SDF ...

17. Sri Lanka: Genocide against Tamils

    relief and reconstruction in areas that were administered by the LTTE at the time. In February 2002, ...

18. G20's pledges will worsen crisis for the poor

    Debt relief, loans and access to world markets are made contingent on the elimination of restrictions ...

19. Tamil refugees to be deported to death?

    dollars for tsunami relief are being held up while the government is not doing anything for tsunami ...

20. Burma: Political prisoner released but thousands remain

    foreign investment in resource extraction industries, foreign assistance in disaster relief was not ...

21. Obscuring the violence inherent in the system

    debt relief programs that demand privatisation of utilities and slashing of health budgets. ...

22. Israel steps up killings as Hamas offers peace

    On April 24, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) announced that it would be suspending ...

23. Syria: New horrors as outside powers worsen crisis

    killing 12 people and destroying 18 trucks of relief supplies. Western politicians immediately blamed ...

24. Pakistan: New drone killings deepen instability

    hampering the relief activities underway there. This … is fomenting a fear of the death toll rising.” The ...

25. After Cyclone Pam: Climate action is urgent

    Nott said. The Australian government announced it would send at least $5 million of emergency relief to ...

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