Beyond Reality: the Hollywood Treatment of Humanitarian Aid
The latest Angelina Jolie movie -- the action-romance Beyond Borders, in which she chases the handsome doctor of a humanitarian group from one desperate country to another -- is a textbook example of why the benefits of getting celebrities involved with charities must be weighed carefully against…
By Nick Cater
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Securing the Security of Aid Workers
It is hard to exaggerate the impact of the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad in which more than 20 people died and scores were injured. As the worst single attack on the United Nations in its history, with the loss of the U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and other leading…
By Nick Cater
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Attack Response Marred by Charities’ Missteps
Donations for the victims of the September 11 attacks now total about $1.2-billion, a level of compassion and generosity that is astonishing, indeed awe-inspiring -- and ultimately misguided. The scale of the giving has not been about victims’ needs, which no one assessed before the donations…
By Nick Cater
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