Category Archives: Conflict, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Aid

Mapping the Landscape of Emerging Aid Donors

By Paul Callan, Jasmin Blak, and Andria Thomas The first blog in this series addressed the attention given to Chinese foreign assistance. Yet China is only one of several emerging donor countries that are providing an increasingly significant contribution to … Continue reading

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Strengthening Burundi through partnership, good governance

Burundi is quickly becoming one of East Africa’s development success stories. In the 1990s, the ethnic violence between the Hutus and the Tutsis had devastating effects on Burundi’s population, leaving 200,000 dead, 140,000 internally displaced, and forcing an additional 48,000 … Continue reading

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Supporting the fight against human trafficking

According to the International Labor Organization, approximately 2.4 million people are trafficked at any given point in time, representing a $32 billion industry that affects 137 countries across the world. In 2007, the United Nations launched UN.GIFT, the United Nations … Continue reading

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