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At worlds first humanitarian summit, leaders rich nations are no-shows

2016-05-25 19:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Heads of state from across the globe convened in Istanbul, Turkey, this week for the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit, a United Nations convention on how nations, NGOs, the private sector, and humanitarian groups can aid in the global crises currently affecting 125 million worldwide. More than 5,000 participants attended the summit - including the heads of 57 world nations and celebrities like Daniel Craig, Ashley Judd, and Forest Whitaker. Strangely absent, however, were the heads of the...

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Humanitarian Summit Aims to Mobilise Up to 30 Billion Dollars

2016-05-23 11:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: The two-day World Humanitarian Summit (WHS), opening today May 23 in Istanbul, aims at mobilising between 20 and 30 billion dollars to face the on-gowing, worst-ever humanitarian crises, said Stephen O'Brien, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs andEmergency Relief Coordinator. "Let us not underestimate the gravity of what lies before us in these coming days: A once in a generation opportunity to set in motion an ambitious and far-reaching agenda to change the way that we alleviate,...

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