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Published in: oDR: NewsHow to help Ukrainian people, in and outside Ukraine, in 2023
Ukrainians need your support more than ever in 2023. You can give money to these local grassroots organisations
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Published in: Home: OpinionInternational aid is racist, say MPs – academics must help decolonise it
A committee of British MPs says aid is structurally racist – but even academics seem stuck in colonial thinking
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsAfghanistan aid projects were cut by UK government amid ‘total lack of transparency’
A charity helping Afghan women was among groups targeted by funding cuts before Taliban takeover, leaving thousands...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationAnti-gay ‘therapy’ offered at Uganda health centres run by aid-funded groups
Major hospitals also offered undercover reporters counselling to ‘change’ their sexual orientation. Health experts...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionTime to change aid to give people sovereignty over their food
The world has more than enough food, but current UK aid policy helps concentrate power over it in corporate hands.
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Published in: ourEconomyWestern style ‘democracy’ in Africa is just a way of pushing the neoliberal agenda
The region has its own rich democratic traditions to draw from.
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Published in: TransformationIt’s time to take our charities to the cleaners
Everyone needs a deep clean from time to time. Best to do it before your teeth get infected.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Middle East’s new donors: rogues or team players?
Turkey and the Gulf monarchies in their savvy, if reactionary, use of aid have become important players in the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow to support Syria
Today’s London conference might make a start by assessing the world’s catastrophic failure to stop the carnage in...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBy misdiagnosing Israel-Palestine, donor aid harms Palestinians
No amount of aid can bring about a just, positive, and lasting peace, until the fundamental injustices of occupation...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaForeign aid: development or 'de-development'?
Foreign aid has only incapacitated Palestinians and made them ever more dependent on the west. The aid industry must...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIt's raining, it's pouring and a book review
Days after the Jordan, Israel and Palestine water agreement is signed, rain falls in abundance. Efraim shares his...
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Published in: HomeNiger stricken by military coup
Military officers take power in Niger. NATO suffers casualties in Afghanistan. The IAEA launches warns of Iranian...