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  • NEWS:Alaskan villagers become climate refugees as homeland melts

    The predicament faced by the Eskimo village of Newtok is a wake-up call for all of us, says rights lawyer

  • NEWS:U.S. NGOs support proposal to modernize Foreign Assistance Act of 1961

    U.S. NGO alliance InterAction welcomes today’s release of Rep. Howard Berman’s (D-CA) draft Global Partnerships Act of 2011, a proposal which brings U.S. foreign assistance into the 21st century. This new plan, which comes half a century after the implementation of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, establishes a much-needed framework to reform the current system of delivering U.S. assistance abroad.

  • NEWS:Foreign aid cuts would damage U.S. interests

    U.S. House Republican appropriators today continued their assault on U.S. international efforts to reduce poverty, address climate change, and respond to famine and other disasters. This comes a week after the House Foreign Affairs Committee also sought to gut core development accounts.

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