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Posing for ‘poverty porn’: The murky ethics of NGO fundraising ‘hero shots’
Khmerization | 29 May, 2016
The young girl in Sunrise Cambodia’s recent fundraising campaign has been labelled a “sex worker” in glossy typeface. Her face is smeared with dirt. She is accompanied by a “trafficked kid” and a “homeless teen” on the page.
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An Unprecedented Aid Increase (or not)
NZ Aid Development Dialogues | 29 May, 2016
Budget time in Aotearoa. And the news from our first-cut-analysis of the aid budget is startling: a massive increase in New Zealand aid.
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Top USAID contractors for 2015
Devex | 27 May, 2016
The U.S. Agency for International Development obligated contract funding for fiscal 2015 reached $4.8 billion — a $1 billion increase from its total in 2014. This 26 percent budget surge marks the first upward movement in USAID’s contract spending in the last three years.
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Pacific corruption-fighters worried as online database faces uncertain future
ABC | 26 May, 2016
GARRETT: Julie Bishop says the funding has NOT been cut but perhaps ominously, when dfat is the main funder, added that 'no decision has been made'. What do you take from that?
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UK aid commitment encourage other G7 nations to spend £6bn more
Public Finance International | 16 May, 2016
Britain’s “generosity” has sparked increased aid contributions from the rest of the G7 nations, the ONE campaign has said.
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People uprooted within states by conflict hits record in 2015: aid group
Thomson Reuters Foundation | 12 May, 2016
The number of people uprooted inside their own countries by war and violence hit a record 40.8 million in 2015, with Yemen recording the most cases of newly displaced, an international aid group said on Wednesday.
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Trudeau calls UN goal to boost aid spending ‘too ambitious’
The Star | 10 May, 2016
Trudeau acknowledged Ottawa has no intention of meeting the international goal to spend 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product on foreign aid anytime soon.
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Pensioners back Lambie call to slash overseas aid
The Advertiser | 09 May, 2016
TASMANIAN pensioners have come out in support of a call by Senator Jacqui Lambie to halve foreign aid over the next decade and spend the money at home.
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UN to campaign against xenophobia, racism in dealing with refugees
Thomson Reuters Foundation | 09 May, 2016
The United Nations on Monday proposed that its member countries create and agree upon a system to share responsibility more fairly for the hundreds of millions of refugees and migrants around the world.
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US probe into Turkey-Syria aid corruption deepens
IRIN | 09 May, 2016
An IRIN investigation has found that a probe by a US government watchdog into corruption in aid delivery across the Turkey-Syria border runs deeper and involves more NGOs than previously reported.