A new Gaza crisis: is Gaza drowning in aid?

January 29th, 2008 | Category: Human Rights, Ethics

Is too much aid ever a problem? According to Martin Kramer’s Sandbox, if a report in the Boston Globe is accurate Gaza may soon be “buried in flour”.
The Globe’s report is written by Eyad al-Sarraj, founder of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, and Sara Roy, a political economist and researcher at the Center for […]

New UN Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace Calls for Greater NGO Accountability

June 11th, 2007 | Category: Amnesty International, UN, NGOs

Dr. Michael Williams has been named as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Palestinian Authority and the Quartet. Dr. Williams previously served as Special Advisor to two UK Foreign Secretaries and held a number of senior […]