ActionAid is an international non-governmental organization whose primary aim is to work against poverty and injustice worldwide.
Prince Hassan bin Talal is a member of the Jordanian royal family.
Lawfare is a form of war consisting of the use of the legal system against an enemy, such as by damaging or delegitimizing them, tying up their time or winning a public relations victory. The term is a portmanteau of the words law and warfare.
Jamil el-Banna is a Jordanian of Palestinian origin with refugee status in the United Kingdom who had been living in northwest London. He was abducted in November 2002 by the CIA from Gambia while on a business trip and suffered extraordinary rendition to Bagram, where he was held and interrogated by the CIA until March 2003. He was transferred to military custody at Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in March 2003 and held there until December 19, 2007.
Human Appeal is a British international development and relief charity based in Manchester. It was established in 1991. It runs targeted poverty relief programmes in emergency response and sustainable development.
Muslim Aid is a UK based Islamic charity NGO. It was originally run by former senior staff of the Muslim Council of Britain, and is now run by a new board of seven members which took office early 2018 and is chaired by independent management consultant Iftikhar Awan. It is a member of the Muslim Charities Forum, an umbrella organisation for UK based Muslim-led charities whose primary goal is to provide humanitarian aid and assistance to the poorest and most vulnerable people around the world and is also an associate member of Bond, the UK membership body for non-governmental organisations and a member of NCVO, National Council for Voluntary Organisations, an organisation with 11,000 members that champions the voluntary sector and volunteering.
Said Ramadan was an Egyptian political activist and humanitarian, and one of the preeminent leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Hany Abdel Gawad El-Banna OBE is the co-founder of Islamic Relief, the largest Western-based international Muslim relief and development NGO, established in 1984 in Birmingham, UK.
Hassan Tatanaki is a Libyan born business man who has contributed substantial financial resources and time to the building of local Libyan communities civil society programs ranging from organic farming, water resource management, water and waste water treatment, the construction of educational facilities, and improvement of the program at the Tobruk School for the Blind. Most recently, Hassan Tatanaki founded Libya El Hurra Charity (LHC) which aims to provide humanitarian aid and relief to internally displaced, refugees, and vulnerable populations such as women and children in Libya, and refugees situated in Tunisia and Egypt.
Sheikh Hassan Ahmed Abdel Rahman Muhammed al-Banna, known as Hassan al-Banna, was an Egyptian schoolteacher and imam, best known for founding the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the largest and most influential Islamic revivalist organizations.
The Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre (KMCC) is a global organisation of Muslims from the Indian state of Kerala. It was formed in 1985 by Indian expatriates who support the Indian Union Muslim League.
Once known as Qatar Charitable Society, Qatar Charity is a controversial humanitarian and development non-governmental organizations in the Middle East, which has been accused of terrorism financing. According to Foreign Policy, Osama Bin Laden named the organization “one of several charities that were used to fund al Qaeda’s overseas operations”. It was founded in 1992 in response to the thousands of children who were made orphans by the Afghanistan war and while orphans still remain a priority cause in the organization’s work with more than 150,000 sponsored orphans, it has now expanded its fields of action to include six humanitarian fields and seven development fields.
Husna Parvin Ahmad, OBE is a Bangladeshi-born British humanitarian and writer. She is Secretary-General at World Muslim Leadership Forum. She was chief executive officer of the Faith Regen Foundation, she sits on the Advisory Board of East London Mosque and previously sat on the Department for Work and Pensions' Ethnic Minority Advisory Group (EMAG).
Muslim Power 100 is a 2007 list published by The Power 100 website compiled of the top 100 British Muslims who have contributed positively to the United Kingdom.
Othman Moqbel is a British non-profit executive. He is a trustee of AVECO and Charity Futures. Currently CEO of Syria Relief, he was CEO of Human Appeal from 2010 to 2018.
Al-Khair Foundation (AKF) is an international Muslim aid NGO based in the United Kingdom, and is the third largest Muslim charity in the UK. It was established in 2003, and aims to deliver aid to the poor and vulnerable, as well as education for the Muslim community. It specialises in humanitarian support, international development, emergency aid and disaster relief in some of the world’s most deprived areas.
Christian humanitarian aid is work performed by Christian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to alleviate the suffering of people around the world. Charity is a concept of great importance in Christianity. Humanitarian aid occurs in areas where some churches choose to invest time and money in the spirit of compassion.
Mārcis Liors Skadmanis, is a Latvian-born UK entrepreneur, philanthropist and Founder of the international calendar day for Non-governmental organizations – World NGO Day, annually observed on 27 February. Today, it is marked in 89 countries across six continents of the globe.
