Where better to gauge the response to Kaplan's piece than on Twitter, and the microblogging site did not disappoint, with these gems shared: And for the academic take on what is wrong with Kaplan's comment: $2bn: The amount the UN's humanitarian chief, Lady Amos, has called for donors to contribute to help combat another looming food crisis in the Sahel.
Yemenis like Wazir instead call for donor organisations to invest in the future of Yemen, with funds for educational institutes and vocational training, as well as increased job opportunities in the country and in the wider region.
At the start, Schou rented a nine-metre-squared office and cycled round town pasting up posters calling for donors.
The new deal also calls for donors – bilateral aid agencies, UN agencies and international finance institutions – to fundamentally change their modus operandi.
Stephen Lewis of the UN children's fund says that the combination of hunger and AIDS "is the most ferocious assault on women ever", and calls for donors to rethink how they should tackle the emergency.
'Tracking Progress in Child Survival: Countdown to 2015' is an international initiative calling for donors and governments to live up to their commitment to reduce child mortality by two thirds in the decade ahead.
On Monday, a prominent political site that closely follows gay rights issues, AmericaBlog, called for a "donor boycott" of the Democratic National Committee and other Obama campaign groups.
Unicef has warned that the hundreds of thousands of displaced people are putting additional strain on already stretched health, education and social services systems in host communities, and has called for international donors to increase their support.
While the mayor has in the past called for wealthy donors to stop writing checks to politicians who act against the city's interests, his decision to personally withdraw an invitation to a member of Congress was the starkest example yet of his willingness to punish fellow Republicans when they go against the city's interests.
By Mario Diaz and Wolfgang Friedl Dubai, 5 April 2005 – UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Rima Salah today launched the Arabic version of the Humanitarian Action Report 2005 and called for international donors and humanitarian agencies to renew their commitment and support for countries in crisis.
