A billion dollars in aid to Pakistan over two years. That is a huge donation from Japan to try and assist the stabilisation of the Pakistani economy and to aid the fight against terrorism. It is also a large portion – in fact a quarter – of the total package pledged by about 40 countries [...]
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Billion Dollar Pledge – Why?
Posted in global security, tagged aid, billion dollars, collapse, donation, non-state actors, pakistan, security on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kids in Italian Sewers
Posted in Incredible Stories, tagged aid, asylum, humanitarian, refugees on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It seems like something out of a Dickens novel – kids living in the sewers. How could it happen in modern day Europe? Yet it was reported that Italian police found 24 Afghan children in the sewer system under a Rome railway station. The children, range in age from 10 to 15, and were unaccompanied. [...]
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