The provision of humanitarian aid—food, medicine, shelter, and economic assistance—has grown considerably in the last several years. The International Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders provided aid during almost every conflict. The...

Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to humanitarian crises. The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity. It may...

WAR AGAINST IRAQ Water flows in Umm Qasr Pipeline brings relief to parched port town, but blasts still heard By DAVID FINKEL Washington Post Tuesday, April 1, 2003 Umm Qasr, Iraq -- Water flowed Monday into Umm Qasr. ...

THE STRUGGLE over the Nicaraguan contras is being renewed, at the lower pitch befitting the anticlimactic nature of this phase, on the issue of humanitarian aid. The administration's approach is consistent with its familiar goal of forcing the Sandinistas out of power. It sees...

The European Union suspended its humanitarian aid projects in the Gaza Strip on Thursday as the stridently anti-Israel Islamic Hamas movement moved closer to taking control of the area, raising the prospect of a collapse of the Palestinian coalition government.The EU also called for a...