NGOs

Israel hindering Gaza aid access despite court ruling, says NGO

Almost no international NGO targeted by the Israeli ban had managed to transport aid into Gaza in recent months.

Amnesty condemns Burkina Faso junta’s sweeping ban of NGOs

Soldiers from Burkina Faso patrol on the road of Gorgadji in the Sahel region, Burkina Faso, on March 3, 2019.

Millions in Sudan surviving on one meal a day as food crisis deepens, NGOs say

FILE PHOTO: Volunteers distribute food to residents and displaced people in Omdurman, Sudan, March 8, 2024. Nearly five million people in the country are close to famine as Sudan's civil war passes the one-year mark. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig/File Photo

Where bombs once echoed, football now brings hope for Cambodian girls in Singapore for JSSL 7s tournament

Hana Kong of Oroong School had hear the shelling during the Thai-Cambodian conflict.

News analysis

Acid attack on activist becomes battleground in Indonesia’s military-police rivalry

Activists from the Advocacy Team for Democracy hold up posters in support of Mr Andrie Yunus, the victim of the acid attack, at a press conference in Menteng, Central Jakarta, on March 16.

‘It was really heartbreaking’: RGS students hear atomic bomb survivor recount Nagasaki sufferings

Raffles Girls' School students and parents touring the ship, MV Pacific World organised by Peace Boat, a Japan-based NGO that operates a world cruise for peace.

Calls for justice mount as Indonesian activist maimed in acid attack

Deputy coordinator of the KontraS rights group, Andrie Yunus, sustained serious injuries to his face, eyes, hands and chest in the acid attack.

Sylvia Chang on her humanitarian work with disadvantaged children: ‘Through them, I learnt so much’

Sylvia Chang with a child during a field trip to Lebanon in 2019.

Doctors Without Borders will keep operating in Gaza ‘as long as we can’: Mission head

In early February, Israel announced it was terminating all the activities in Gaza by the medical charity Doctors Without Borders.

Indonesia’s unlikely activists: How white-collar workers are finding their voice

Mr Efraim Leonard speaking at a community gathering where participants discuss socio-political issues in August 2024.

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