24 August 10 - Switzerland will continue efforts to improve food security and defeat hunger around the world, although it remains a “Herculean task”. Read

23 August 10 - Alcohol, excess sleep, drugs, social withdrawal and sex are some of the tools that humanitarians facing burnout use to switch off from the constant stress they face in a typical emergency response. Read

13 August 10 - Sam Worthington, the President and CEO of InterAction, spoke recently with IPS about the role of NGOs in Haiti, the US and throughout the world. Read

13 August 10 - Reporters Without Borders: Open letter to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange: RSF regrets the incredible irresponsibility you showed when posting your article “Afghan War Diary 2004 - 2010” on the Wikileaks website on 25 July together with 92,000 leaked documents disclosing the (...) Read

11 August 10 - From CNN: Several humanitarian organizations have reached out to WikiLeaks to warn that the leaked documents it posts on its site could endanger the lives of civilians whose names appear in them. Read

11 August 10 - As flooding in Pakistan disrupts millions of lives, and huge areas of Russian forest burn, many people are wondering whether they are linked. Read

5 August 10 - From UN News: The economic empowerment of the world’s poorest people will not happen unless their human rights are also considered, a senior United Nations official said today, urging governments around the world not to separate development and basic rights when devising (...) Read

1 August 10 - From Amnesty International: The worldwide ban on cluster bombs that comes into force on 1 August, marks the most groundbreaking disarmament and humanitarian treaty in over a decade. Read

1 August 10 - Floods have got bigger, droughts more intense and threats posed by waterborne diseases a bit too much to handle for poor countries trying to use their limited resources to adapt to a moodier climate. Read

30 July 10 - From the ICBL: Statement by Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams on the occasion of the entry into force of the Convention on Cluster Munitions which will enter into force on 1 August 2010, thus becoming binding international (...) Read