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The EU contributes €20 million to the Palestinian Authority's April salaries and pensions

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European Union

Today the European Union has contributed approximately €20 million to the payment of salaries and pensions for March of nearly 76,000 Palestinian civil servants and pensioners in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. This contribution, which is channelled through the PEGASE[1] mechanism, is funded by the European Commission (around €19.3 million) and the Government of Luxembourg (€0.7 million)

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Congo + 12 others
Evaluation de l’action de déblaiement et de dépollution des quartiers affectés par l’explosion du dépôt de munitions de Mpila à Brazzaville

Mandat

L’évaluation a été confié au Centre International de Déminage Humanitaire de Genève (CIDHG) agissant en partenariat avec le programme universitaire indépendant Small Arms Survey. Le mandat comprenait:

  • L'évaluation de l'efficacité des activités de dépollution de la zone de Mpila à Brazzaville;

  • L'évaluation des processus de coordination entre les autorités nationales, l'équipe de l’action contre les mines des Nations unies (UNMAT), les partenaires d'exécution, les bailleurs de fonds et les autres parties prenantes;

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Afghanistan + 1 other
Five Dollars Per Person: Luxembourg Is Highest Per Capita Donor To WFP Afghanistan

KABUL – With a donation of more than US$660,000 (€500,000), Luxembourg is the first country to contribute to the regular operations of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan in 2013. This donation makes Luxembourg, a landlocked country located in western Europe with a population of about 525,000, the highest per capita donor to WFP Afghanistan.

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Mali + 8 others
Aide humanitaire en Syrie et au Mali

Après avoir fait des contributions d’aide d’urgence en réponse à la crise syrienne d’un montant total de plus de 2 millions d’euros en 2012, le gouvernement luxembourgeois annoncera une promesse de don de 3 millions d’euros à l’occasion de la Conférence internationale sur la Syrie qui se tiendra au Koweït le 30 janvier 2013. Il s’agit pour l’essentiel d’assistance aux familles vulnérables affectées par le conflit en Syrie et aux réfugiés en provenance de Syrie dans les pays limitrophes (Jordanie, Liban et Turquie).

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World + 14 others
Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review Working Group to hold fifteenth session in Geneva from 21 January to 1 February 2013

15 January 2013

The fifteenth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review Working Group will be held in Geneva from 21 January to 1 February during which the next group of 14 States are scheduled to have their human rights records examined under this mechanism.

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Nicaragua + 1 other
Gran Ducado de Luxemburgo contribuye a la reducción de la mortalidad infantil y materna en Nicaragua

Contribuir al cumplimiento de las Metas del Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM) para la reducción de la mortalidad Infantil y Materna en comunidades rurales, indígenas y afrodescendientes a través del fortalecimiento institucional para el manejo eficiente de la salud de la mujer, la niñez y la adolescencia, así como la implementación de planes nacionales para la estrategia nacional de salud sexual y reproductiva y el Modelo de Salud Familiar y Comunitario, tuvo como objetivo la firma del Programa Conjunto ODM 4 & 5, el cual suscribieron el Vicecanciller para la Cooperación Externa Sr.

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UNHCR Syria Fact Sheet - June 2012 (EN/AR)

  • An overwhelming majority of Iraqi refugees 91.6% of refugees and asylum-seekers registered with UNHCR in Syria are from Iraq. The Government of Syria, which has continuously implemented a generous policy towards the stay of Iraqi refugees, estimates that the country hosts about one million Iraqis. 64.6% come from the region of Baghdad alone and 62.4% sought refuge in Syria five or more years ago. 35% of the 27,681 families registered are female-headed households.

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World + 1 other
UNAIDS and Luxembourg foster joint action on AIDS

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UNAIDS

The Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has been a long-standing champion of the AIDS response both in its domestic approach to the epidemic and through its support to countries most affected by HIV. It has also been committed to supporting UNAIDS in terms of sustained funding as well as political support.

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World + 16 others
First global aid cut in 14 years will cost lives - Oxfam

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Oxfam

Hundreds of thousands of poor people will go without life-saving medicines and many more children will miss out on school because of the first cuts in global aid since 1997, Oxfam warned today as the OECD published its annual report showing how much donors give to poor countries.

Oxfam said the figures showed the importance of the UK sticking to its commitment to meet the target of giving 0.7 per cent of national income in aid next year. The OECD’s figures show a surprise fall in UK aid of $100m in real terms or 0.8 per cent between 2010-11.

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World + 10 others
Towards Better Humanitarian Donorship: 12 lessons from OECD/DAC peer reviews

By J. Brian Atwood, Chair of the Development Assistance Committee, OECD

Introduction

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Haiti + 1 other
Pour une meilleure participation des femmes dans la reconstruction d’Haïti

Réunies du 28 février au 1er mars 2012 à Port-au-Prince autour du slogan « Nap vanse! » (Nous avançons) et du thème « Fanm se poto mitan rekonstriksyon Ayiti » (la femme est le pilier de la reconstruction d’Haïti), les femmes issues de tous les départements d’Haïti ont, ensemble, défini une «Plateforme Nationale d’Action des Femmes Haïtiennes pour la Reconstruction », laquelle a été présentée, le 1er mars, au Président de la République, Michel Joseph Martelly.

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Luxembourg commits €15 million to UNRWA over four years

8 February 2012
Jerusalem

Luxembourg today announced a multi-year financial commitment to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), increasing its annual contribution to the Agency’s core work through the General Fund to € 3.75 million until 2015, which represents an annual progression of some 36 per cent.

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The EU, Spain, Ireland and Luxembourg contribute €47.7 million to the PA's payment of December salaries and pensions

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European Union

The European Union is making today a contribution of approximately €47.7 million to the payment of the December 2011 salaries and pensions of almost 85,000 Palestinian civil servants and pensioners in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. This contribution, which is channelled through the PEGASE[1] mechanism, is being funded by the European Commission (€26.2 million) and the governments of Spain (€20.0 million), Ireland (€1.0 million) and Luxembourg (€0.5 million).

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World + 1 other
Emergency satellite communications platform bolsters global humanitarian intervention

ITU and Luxembourg to cooperate in telecommunications for disaster response

Geneva, 8 December 2011 – ITU and the Government of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg have agreed to cooperate on strengthening emergency telecommunications and rapid response in the event of natural disasters. ITU and Luxembourg are members of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC), comprising of UN agencies and other humanitarian partners.

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Le PAM et le Luxembourg signent un partenariat

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UN News Service

Des millions de victimes de crises humanitaires, notamment en Afrique de l'Ouest, bénéficieront d'un nouveau partenariat signé jeudi entre le Programme alimentaire mondial des Nations Unies (PAM) et le Luxembourg pour fournir de l'aide alimentaire et répondre aux besoins en télécommunications.

« Ce partenariat est lancé à un moment critique dans le monde alors que les chocs économiques et météorologiques continuent de menacer la sécurité alimentaire de près d'un milliard de personnes sur Terre », a déclaré la Directrice exécutive du PAM, Josette Sheeran.

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Luxembourg + 1 other
Millions set to benefit from UN-Luxembourg partnership for food aid

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UN News Service

Millions of victims of humanitarian emergencies, particularly in West Africa, will benefit from a new life-saving partnership signed today between the United Nations and Luxembourg to provide a rapid response in food aid and communications needs.

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World + 10 others
GHA Report 2011

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Humanitarian aid is being stretched. Millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa are living with conflict and its legacy; natural disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti and the floods in Pakistan have the power to disrupt and sometimes even paralyse economic and social infrastructure; recovery and reconstruction remain uneven following large-scale conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan; and political turmoil is escalating in parts of the Middle East and North Africa.

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Luxembourg: Location Map (2010)

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Premier cas de grippe A (H1N1) au Luxembourg

Suite à l'identification, le 1er juin 2009, d'un premier cas de grippe A (H1N1) au Luxembourg, le ministre de la Santé, Mars Di Bartolomeo, a fait le point sur la situation lors d'un bref point de presse en date du 2 juin 2009.

Le ministre a rappelé qu'il s'agit d'une personne de la région nord du pays qui a séjourné récemment aux états-Unis d'Amérique (New York) et qui s'est présentée l'après-midi du 1er juin 2009 auprès d'un médecin avec des symptômes grippaux bénins (fièvre modérée). Les analyses, effectuées au Laboratoire national de santé, ont confirmé