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Government buildings and humanitarian aid offices in Abeche were said to have been looted.

The United States provided emergency humanitarian aid and economic assistance to Cape Verde in the period immediately following Cape Verde's independence, as well as after natural disasters, including a hurricane that struck the island of Brava in 1982, and after a severe volcanic eruption on Fogo in 1995.

The United States Department of State approved the lifting of Section 508 aid restrictions triggered by the coup ; U. S. assistance to the Central African Republic had been prohibited except in the areas of humanitarian aid and support for democratization.

In July 2012, Cuba received its first American goods shipment in over 50 years, following the partial relaxation of the US embargo to permit humanitarian shipments.

The relations between the two countries strengthened after Cuba provided humanitarian assistance to the victims of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.

* A few humanitarian and religious leaders such as Mother Teresa and Desmond Tutu have achieved fame because of their charitable work around the world.

Since 1990, the ACR and the Czech Armed Forces have contributed to numerous peacekeeping and humanitarian operations, including IFOR, SFOR, and EUFOR Althea in Bosnia, Desert Shield / Desert Storm, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Albania, Turkey, Pakistan and with the Coalition forces in Iraq.

Both men and women may serve as missionaries, and the church maintains a large missionary program which proselytizes and conducts humanitarian services worldwide.

* The church has participated in numerous joint humanitarian efforts with other churches.

* Powell is an Honorary Board Member of the humanitarian organization Wings of Hope

Islam forbade raping concubines captured in wars and encouraged a culture of keeping them in Muslim household where they could be motivated to embrace Islam without any coercion through affectionate and humanitarian treatment.

Nevertheless, the ICJ found that the U. S. encouraged acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law by producing the manual Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare ( Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas ) and disseminating it to the contras.

The International Court of Justice ruled on 27 June 1986 that by disseminating the manual to the contras, the United States of America had " encouraged ... acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law.

The post-war, and post-reunions, period saw an increase in co-operation and interaction between ecclesias, resulting in the establishment of a number of week-long Bible schools and the formation of national and international organisations such as the Christadelphian Bible Mission ( for preaching and pastoral support overseas ), the Christadelphian Support Network ( for counselling ), and the Christadelphian Meal-A-Day Fund ( for charity and humanitarian work ).

There are ecclesially-accountable committees for co-ordinated preaching, youth and Sunday School work, conscientious objection issues, care of the elderly, and humanitarian work.

Among the Children of God, the judge argued, Flirty Fishing was not understood as prostitution but " as a personal contribution to the humanitarian aims that the sect always claimed to pursue ".

Up to 2006 the United Nations Joint Logistics Centre ( UNJLC ) had an operation in Congo to support humanitarian relief agencies working there, and its bulletins and maps about the transport situation are archived on the UNJLC web site.

Its primary tasks are ; NATO participation in accordance with the strategy of the alliance, detect and repel any sovereignty violation of Danish territory ( including Greenland and the Faroe Islands ), defence cooperation with non-NATO members, especially Central and East European countries, international missions in the area of conflict prevention, crises-control, humanitarian, peacemaking, peacekeeping, participate in Total Defence in cooperation with civilian resources and finally maintain a sizable force to execute these tasks at all times.

Over the past decade, the United States has been a principal provider of humanitarian assistance for famine relief, and has sponsored health care, education, good governance, and security assistance programs.

U. S. service members provide humanitarian support and development and security assistance to people and governments of the Horn of Africa and Yemen.

* 1992 – UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, with the task of establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia.

* 2007 – Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the presidential election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.

During the 1920s and 1930s destroyers were often deployed to areas of diplomatic tension or humanitarian disaster.

Today the FAE has a personnel of 6, 055 and focuses mainly on border-control but faces also the war on drugs, guerrilla insurgency as well as humanitarian missions.

In 2005 domestic food production is expected to provide for less than 20 percent of domestic demand and will leave between 1. 7 and 2. 2 million people dependent on humanitarian assistance to meet basic food needs.