Social Work: Global Practice  Tags: social_work public_policy human_rights humanitarian_aid refugees  

Operates in over 40 countries and engages in both emergency food aid activities and long-term self-sufficiency work.

This news and communications service is part of the Reuters Foundation. It provides information on international emergency relief.

CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.

A US-based organization that provides direct aid to the poor in the US and overseas. Program areas include agriculture, health, education, peacebuilding and emergency response, and emphasize capacity building, food security, gender and justice.

The agency of the European Union responsible for international humanitarian aid.

From the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.

Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

An alliance of US-based international development and humanitarian NGOs that works toward the alleviation of poverty and suffering by advancing social justice and basic dignity.

Provides resettlement assistance, global emergency relief, rehabilitation, and advocacy for refugees.

Provides information on the Federation's disaster relief operations as well as links to press releases, news reports and publications.

The International Youth Foundation (IYF) is working in close to 70 countries and territories to improve the conditions and prospects for young people.

Humanitarian news and analysis from UN OCHA.

An independent medical aid agency, MSF is committed to providing medical aid in crisis centers and across the world.

A group of organizations working worldwide to find sustainable solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice.

Information on complex emergencies with country updates, maps of crisis areas, financial tracking database, etc.

Coordinates humanitarian actors  including UN agencies and programs, the Red Cross Movement, and NGOs  in humanitarian response, policy development and humanitarian advocacy.

The principal US foreign aid agency providing assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms.

The UN's primary agency in the fight against global hunger. Publications, including reports on hunger-related topics and policy and background papers, and can be downloaded.