Promoting Humanitarian Principles

Latest News From Around The World

• The Financial Times

  Transparency call for relief agencies

  UK relief groups need to be more accountable and show more clearly that they are abiding by humanitarian principles, the umbrella organisation for disaster appeals says

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• TIME Magazine

  Biden on the Middle East: Experienced, Yes. But Smart?

  All eyes are on Joe Biden as he gives his speech to the Democratic National Convention. Denver will be thick with party backslapping. Barack Obama put him on his Democratic ticket partly because he'll appeal to the white-male/blue-collar voters Obama

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• The Guardian

  How to handle Hamas | Adam Ingram

  The Northern Ireland peace process will be relevant to the Middle East only if Hamas recognises Israel and puts aside arms

  The recent assassination of a founder of Hamas' armed wing, allegedly involved in the smuggling of

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• The Observer

  Friends and enemies united in admiration of Michael Foot

  Tributes paid to former Labour leader, who has died aged 96

  Friends, former colleagues – even those at the very heart of Michael Foot's often vicious political battles of the 1970s and 1980s – expressed genuine sadness

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• The Guardian

  Wanted: Tony Blair for war crimes. Arrest him and claim your reward | George Monbiot

  Chilcot and the courts won't do it, so it is up to us to show that we won't let an illegal act of mass murder go unpunished

  The only question that counts is the one that the Chilcot inquiry won't address: was the war with

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• The Guardian

  Thailand begins deportation of more than 4,000 Hmong asylum seekers

  Amid secrecy, Thai troops move into camp to deport Hmong refugees who say they face persecution in Laos

  Thailand began deporting more than 4,000 Hmong asylum seekers in secret today , drawing widespread international conde

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• The Guardian

  In the next decade, I hope to become more radical | Costas Douzinas

  The left is the main hope against xenophobic, securitised, apocalyptic barbarism. We should expect radical change

  How different things looked in 1900 and 2000. The end of the 19th century was drowned in fin de siècle gloo

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• The Observer

  Sri Lankan government voices anger as UK MPs address Tamil group

  David Miliband and Gordon Brown among parliamentarians at London conference of Global Tamil Forum

  The diplomatic rift between London and Colombo has widened after Gordon Brown and David Miliband met delegates from a

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