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Microsoft partners with aid agencies to provide essential technology

In 1999, Microsoft employees from the European offices responded to the Kosovo crisis by creating The Refugee Field Kit - a computer-based method of providing displaced people (most of whom had been stripped of identity papers when fleeing Kosovo) with new official identity cards and an easier...

Human rights training of judges in Nigeria

A three-year partnership between Statoil and the Legal Defence and Assistance Project is introducing Sharia judges in northern Nigeria to human rights issues and legislation.

FC Barcelona commits to the continued financial support and global promotion of UNICEF

FC Barcelona has a five year agreement with UNICEF, which includes having the UNICEF logo on their shirts. As part of the agreement the club has committed to donating US$1.9 million per year to the organisation's humanitarian aid programs for five consecutive years. The club has done this in order...

Building NGO capacity for pipelinemonitoring and audit in Azerbaijan

In Azerbaijan, BP and the Open Society Institute-Assistance Foundation are working together to support national NGOs' capacity development through facilitated monitoring and audit of the Baku-Ceyhan-Tbilisi and the South Caucasus Pipeline projects. Among the key objectives of the programme were...

Sara Lee provides shoeshine sets for the event "Street child for a Day"

Sara Lee Switzerland is a subsidiary of the Sara Lee Corporation. They are the leading supplier of shoe care products, insoles and accessories under the labels Tana and Bama. Sara Lee has sponsored Terre des hommes for 11 years with shoeshine sets for the event "Street child for a Day" which takes...