Humanitarianism

Haiti: Seeding "Reconstruction" or Seeding Destruction?

Jane Regan | Posted 07.01.2011

Read More: Robert Scheer, Usaid, Foreign Aid, Free Press, Hybrid Seeds, Agriculture, United Nations, U.S. Agency for International Development, Seeds, Sustainable Agriculture, Media, Tomas, Monsanto, Humanitarian Aid, Foreign Policy, Ngo, Video, Military, Community Radio, Monsanto Corn, Haiti, Investigative Journalism, Haiti Aid, U.S. Army, Refugees, Humanitarianism, Green News
Jane Regan

About a month ago, a team of journalists in Haiti released a nine-article study of a massive seed distribution that took place after the earthquake la...

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Empowering People In Need By Donating Cash, Not Goods

Cormac Staunton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Donating, Charity, Donations, Zimbabwe, World Food Programme, Humanitarian Aid, Humanitarianism, World Food Program, Impact News
Cormac Staunton

There are differences and debates as to the extent to which these should be provided, but most people agree that the best way to provide this assistance is through money, rather than goods.

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Zafen: Redefining "Interest" in the Changing World of Microfinance

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rev. Robert Maloney C.M., New Orleans, Daughters of Charity, Islam, Rotary International, Hands Together Cooperative, Chicago, DePaul University, Laura Hartman, Social Progress, Microfinance, Zafen, Microloan Interest, VentureWalk Business Partners, Haiti, Desiree H. Young, Jean-Claude Fleurantin, Abu Noor Abdul-Malik Ryan, Jim Luce, Haitian Entrepreneurs, Humanitarianism, Social Responsibility, Qard Hasanah, International Development, Hurricane Katrina, Daughters of Charity Ozanam School, Congregation of the Mission, Qur?An, World News
Jim Luce

Microfinance has taken a beating lately for shifting far afield from its humanitarian origins. It's become a good idea gone bad. But all is not lost.

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The Human Stain on "Sustainism"

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thoreau, Eco-System, Mega-Corporations, Egotism, Hedonism, Health Care, Agnosticism, Cubism, Biomimicry, Mother Nature, Graphic Aphorisms, Egalitarianism, Cradle-to-Cradle, Sexism, Urban Planning, Snake Oil Salesmen, Holistic, Mies Van Der Rohe, Rachel Carson, Post-Modernism, Childhood Mortality, Self-Sustaining, Tim Brown, Efficacy, The Silent Spring, Bio-Diversity, Bauhaus School, Greenwashing, Humanitarianism, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Humanism, Post-Impressionism, Impressionism, Egoism, Thudism, Green News
Michael DeJong

In its infancy, our little blue orb was a perfect place serenaded by little more than the swoosh of winds and the ebb of ocean tides. Enter humans.

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Not enough colère against cholera

Jane Regan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Scheer, Usaid, Foreign Aid, United Nations, U.S. Agency for International Development, Georgianne Nienaber, Tomas, Humanitarian Aid, Foreign Policy, Ngo, Video, Military, Keynes, Haiti, Cholera, Investigative Journalism, Haiti Aid, U.S. Army, Refugees, Humanitarianism, World News
Jane Regan

Now they are saying we have 3,481 killed by cholera. It is doubtless many more... But in any case, these are just numbers to newspaper readers and ra...

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A Rose by any Other Name Would Smell Like a "New Humanitarian"

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Private Military Security Contractors, International Peace Operations Association, Humanitarianism, Rebranding, Business News
David Isenberg

Remember when in February 2009 Blackwater changed its name to Xe Services? Didn't do much good, did it? Almost everyone still thinks of it as Blackwa...

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Haiti Elections -- Is This What Democracy Looks Like?

Jane Regan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Haiti Cholera Outbreak, Foreign Aid, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, National Endowment for Democracy, Haiti Cholera, United Nations, U.S. Agency for International Development, Tomas, Humanitarian Aid, Foreign Policy, Ngo, Elections, Video, Military, Haiti, Cholera, Investigative Journalism, U.S. Army, Haiti Aid, Refugees, Humanitarianism, Aristide, Thanksgiving 2010, World News
Jane Regan

2010-11-26-Screenshot20101126at6.19.18PM.pngGo ahead and vote on these photos... since you can't vote in the questionable elections funded by US tax dollars to be held in Haiti on Nov. 28.

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Haiti - What "work" are the "cash-for-work" programs really doing?

Jane Regan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Keynes, United Nations, U.S. Agency for International Development, Robert Scheer, Tomas, Humanitarian Aid, Foreign Policy, Ngo, Video, Military, Haiti, Investigative Journalism, U.S. Army, Haiti Aid, Usaid, Refugees, Humanitarianism, Politics News
Jane Regan

"As Haiti suffers, the world dozes," remarked a recent Washington Post editorial. But not everyone is dozing... All across Haiti, humanitarian agen...

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Haiti - Humanitarian Crisis or Crisis of Humanitarianism?

Jane Regan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ngo, Foreign Aid, Video, Tomas, United Nations, U.S. Agency for International Development, Haiti, Humanitarian Aid, Investigative Journalism, Haiti Aid, Refugees, Humanitarianism, Foreign Policy, Military, U.S. Army, World News
Jane Regan

The way in which international and national authorities in Haiti are dealing with Hurricane Tomas can teach us a great deal about how the economically...

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Kouchner's Lament: Misunderstanding the Net

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet Freedom, Brent Scowcroft, Old Media, Bernard Kouchner, David Addington, Editorial Cartels, Realism, Mainstream Media, Internet, Progressive Realism, Christine Okrent, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jean-David Levitte, The Web, New Media, Cyber-Dissidents, Richard Cheney, Humanitarianism, Pierre Vimont, Politics News
Steve Clemons

The internet today -- despite the occasional bouts of disinformation and invented scandal -- is far more of an effective and immediate marketplace of information than the world for which Bernard Kouchner seems to pine.

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Rallying For Harm Reduction In Thailand

Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Un, Thailand, Harm Reduction, The Giving Life, Humanitarianism, Healthy Living News
Jennifer Winstanley

A few months ago I went to a rally in support of harm reduction services outside a UNAIDS meeting in Chiang Mai. The rally was organized by the Thai A...

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