Obama's First 100 Days

Joel Charny, Vice President for Policy at Refugees International, evaluates President Obama's first 100 days from a humanitarian perspective. He applauds Obama's changes in message and tone, requests for supplemental funding and his plan to submit an FY 10 foreign affairs budget that includes full US funding for multilateral peace keeping obligations (rather than submitting an inadequate request and making up the difference with supplemental funding requests, as the Bush Administration did).

He notes that appointments to humanitarian positions have been remarkably slow when compared with other appointments. For instance, USAID still does not have an administrator.