On 12 April soldiers deposed the government in Guinea-Bissau, marking another coup in a country in which no leader since independence has completed a full term. Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior, widely expected to win the presidential run-off election scheduled for 29 April, and interim President Raimundo Pereira were detained by the military junta for two weeks, before their release to Côte d’Ivoire. The coup was swiftly condemned by the international community, with ECOWAS imposing sanctions and threatening force to restore civilian rule.
[“Good Friends” aims to help the North Korean people from a humanistic point of view and publishes “North Korea Today” describing the way the North Korean people live as accurately as possible. We at Good Friends also hope to be a bridge between the North Korean people and the world.]
National Level ‘Homeland Meeting’ to Convene in Early May
CERF is off to a strong start in 2012. As of mid-April, CERF has received US$381 million in pledges; $340 million has been received for 2012. During the annual CERF High-level Pledging Conference held in December 2011, 45 UN Member States, Observer States and a regional government pledged a total of $375 million to the Fund. CERF is now supported by 126 of 193 UN Member States and Observer States.
Reduction of CERF’s Loan Window
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
This report covers the period 1 January to 31 December 2011
Programme outcome
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Asia Pacific zone office continues to support its regional and country offices as well as the 37 national societies in the zone in building stronger and more resilient communities, improving and assisting in preparedness, knowledge-sharing and response to disasters as well as health and care challenges.
This report covers the period 1 January to 31 December 2011
In brief
The IFRC’s East Asia regional office serves to support and build capacities within the national societies of the East Asia region. The region includes China, Mongolia, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), the Republic of Korea (ROK), and Japan. The IFRC has annual programmes that support the national societies in China, Mongolia, and the DPRK.
[“Good Friends” aims to help the North Korean people from a humanistic point of view and publishes “North Korea Today” describing the way the North Korean people live as accurately as possible. We at Good Friends also hope to be a bridge between the North Korean people and the world.]
“Good Friends” aims to help the North Korean people from a humanistic point of view and publishes “North Korea Today” describing the way the North Korean people live as accurately as possible. We at Good Friends also hope to be a bridge between the North Korean people and the world.
This report covers the period January – December 2011
Programme(s) summary
The programmes supported by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are all streamlined with the strategic aims of the IFRC’s Strategy 2020:
Strategic aim 1: Save lives, protect livelihoods, and strengthen recovery from disasters
24 April, Yangon: Noncommunicable diseases are top killers in WHO’s South-East Asia Region, causing an estimated 7.9 million deaths every year. Cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes and mental disorders can be prevented through effective public health approaches that address risk factors, such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and harmful use of alcohol. Interventions are needed from multiple sectors such as health education, food and nutrition, environment, transport and communications.
The US offered 240,000 tons of food aid to North Korea as part of the “Leap Day understanding”, announced on 29 February 2012. This would, apparently, see the supply of 20,000 tons of food each month from the US for a year, with USAID working out the details. But before any agreement was finalised, the offer was suspended on 13 April 2012 after North Korea attempted to launch a satellite – an act considered to breach the understanding. So what kind of food aid operation was being envisaged?
Despite the provocative rocket launch by North Korea last Friday, South Korea is to continue providing humanitarian aid to its impoverished neighbor, with whom it remains technically at war.
Private aid agencies
South Korea's key official dealing with Pyongyang says his government is not cutting off humanitarian assistance to the North.
New Delhi, 17 April 2012: Health experts from the 11 Member States of WHO’s SouthEast Asia Region met in New Delhi on 16-17 April to discuss and brainstorm about universal health care in the Region. WHO is urging countries in the Region to give priority to public health and the health needs of the poor through appropriate technology and health systems that are anchored at the community level.
North Korea’s ‘Day of the Sun’ – the official title for the centenary of founder Kim Il-sung’s birth – is an opportunity to shed light on the country’s abysmal human rights record, Amnesty International said.
According to the North Korean government, the birth centenary on 15 April is the day on which the country will become a ‘strong and prosperous nation’.
Nearly a million North Koreans have died of starvation since the 1990s, while millions more suffer the health effects of a persistent food crisis.
[“Good Friends” aims to help the North Korean people from a humanistic point of
view and publishes “North Korea Today” describing the way the North Korean
people live as accurately as possible. We at Good Friends also hope to be a bridge
between the North Korean people and the world.]
WASHINGTON, April 13, 2012 (AFP) - The United States Friday called off plans to send food aid to North Korea after the impoverished state's defiant rocket launch, as an aid group feared more than two million children would go hungry.
The United States had already suspended the plan to deliver 240,000 metric tons of assistance aimed at children and pregnant women as North Korea prepared what the regime called an unsuccessful bid to put a satellite in orbit.
[“Good Friends” aims to help the North Korean people from a humanistic point of view and publishes “North Korea Today” describing the way the North Korean people live as accurately as possible. We at Good Friends also hope to be a bridge between the North Korean people and the world.]
[Intro] Education before Fertilizer
Students Unable to Attend School for Lack of Required School Supplies
Kids Waiting for Poop
The Time Even the Head Kkotjebi Goes Hungry
Waiting for Food Scraps – it’s your lucky day if you get some
[“Good Friends” aims to help the North Korean people from a humanistic point of view and publishes “North Korea Today” describing the way the North Korean people live as accurately as possible. We at Good Friends also hope to be a bridge between the North Korean people and the world.]
Sufficient Electric Power Supply, a Key Factor for Stabilizing North Korean People’s Lives
