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Foreign Aid for Haiti
To the Editor: Re “After Storm, Haiti Tries to Avoid Flaws of 2010 Quake Relief” (news article, Oct. 22): As a Haitian professional working on the front lines of disaster response to Hurricane Matthew, I applaud your reporting on the need to ensure that international aid agencies give generously while respecting and collaborating with the …
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Leading Jewish Organization to Provide Emergency Hurricane Funding to Local Partners in Haiti
Locally-Driven Recovery Efforts Most Effective Means to Rebuild the Country in the Wake of Hurricane Matthew NEW YORK – American Jewish World Service (AJWS), the leading Jewish international development organization, is raising funds for and working with local organizations in Haiti to support their response to the devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. …
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Riding for their Rights
After months of planning, it wasn’t clear whether Awaaz-e-Niswaan’s bicycle rally was going to happen. More than 70 teenage girls waited near a busy Mumbai intersection, fanning themselves every so often in a vain attempt to stave off the afternoon heat.
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JDC dispatches aid to hurricane-stricken Haiti
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is providing aid to Haiti after a hurricane caused widespread damage in the Caribbean country. The Jewish humanitarian group, partnering with the on-the-ground relief organization Heart to Heart International, is focusing on providing medical aid and serving the basic needs of those affected by Hurricane Matthew, according to a …
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Collecting vs Collectivizing Adolescent Girls: What’s the Difference?
The international development field is turning an unprecedented level of attention to adolescent girls right now, identifying them as symbols of change for their communities. This has led to increased investment in bringing girls together, but are all these efforts able to empower girls?
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Suddenly Stateless: The successes in the struggle
This story is part of a series of blog posts marking the third anniversary of the court decision that sparked a statelessness crisis in the Dominican Republic. Despite all the accounts of adversity since the 2013 Dominican court ruling, some Dominicans of Haitian descent have successfully applied for documents, restored their nationality and enjoyed the …
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Suddenly Stateless: The people behind the headlines in the Dominican Republic
After the Dominican Republic Constitutional Court’s infamous ruling retroactively stripped citizenship from hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent three years ago, a complex, highly-politicized crisis unfolded.
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Suddenly Stateless: Three Years after the Dominican Citizenship Decree
Three years ago today, the Dominican Republic’s constitutional court stripped the citizenship of hundreds of thousands of people, leaving them without a country to call home.
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Power of the People through Pictures: A Liberian Clan’s Victory over an International Palm Oil Company
Many rural Liberians— like the Jogbahn clan of Grand Bassa County— depend on their land to survive. When a British-owned palm oil company attempted to grab and develop their ancestral territory, AJWS grantee Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) successfully pushed back and won.
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