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End Poverty or Suffer Violence; Syrian Refugee Population 4M; Senator Demands Red Cross Accounting
Q&A: “If We Don’t Close the Poverty Gap, the 21st Century Will End in Extreme Violence”. Implementation of the ambitious post-2015 development agenda which will be adopted in September 2015 at the United Nations depends to a large extent on funding.
Syrians: ‘Biggest Refugee Population From a Single Conflict in a Generation’. Barely 10 months ago, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said the refugee population from Syria had reached the three million mark. Today, the latest data from the field show that the number has passed four million.
Senator Grassley Demands Red Cross Disclose Haiti Spending – and Gives Them a Deadline. Sen. Charles Grassley is demanding the American Red Cross explain how it spent nearly half a billion dollars raised after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The “disappointed” Judiciary Committee chairman wants a detailed breakdown of spending on projects, overhead and other issues.
