FRIENDS' EMERGENCY AND WAR VICTIMS' RELIEF COMMITTEE.

Investigating the Status and Role of Imam Khomeini's Relief Committee in Preventing Youth Delinquency (Case Study of Tehran Relief Committee)

Due to the harmful effects of crime on society, the majority of countries in the world have drawn up plans for preventing and reducing the crime rate, and through the various institutions (governmental and nongovernmental) they let. In Iran, various organs provide services and activities for the prevention of women's delinquency, including the Khomeini Relief Committee. The present study was de...

USAID's War Victims' Fund.

Introduction USAID's (United States Agency for International Development) War Victims' Fund was established in 1989. Since that time AID has provided a modest amount of funds each year to respond to the needs of people injured by war and civil strife in developing countries around the world. Recently, this has amounted to approximately five million dollars per year. As the needs in any single c...

Child Victims of the War

The Zurich international conference on the care of child victims of the war held in September, iy45, a few months after the cessation of hostilities, jyas at once an opportunity and a challenge. Beside he creature sufferings of those deprived of the ?are means of existence?hungry, without shelter, '^adequately clothed?there were known to be nousands of children whose framework of life had Deen ...

War Injuries, Trauma, and Disaster Relief

Some volunteer surgeons may be interested in providing care for civilian victims of war in developing countries. More commonly, volunteers will be increasingly confronted with nonintentional acute and chronic trauma cases, mostly from road traffic accidents. On rare occasions, they might even participate in the relief and reconstruction efforts after natural disasters. There are significant dif...

Failures of emergency relief.