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Humanitarian Aid
The Guardian:
A flu pandemic in Ukraine that has triggered a nationwide panic is worsening this weekend with up to 400 deaths already reported.The arrival of the virus, suspected by the World Health Organisation to be swine flu but possibl (Read More)
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Back in August, the humanitarian and international development blogosphere slogged it out over a controversial video from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) UK. The video, titled 'Boy,' featured a stark image of a small, clay ho (Read More)
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Our esteemed Humanitarian Relief (now War and Peace) blogger, Michael Kleinman, who's on break, introduced us to Oisteen Thorsen, a humanitarian campaigner with Oxfam. Led by Oxfam, one of the most respected and trusted names (Read More)
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The US military is perhaps the greatest logistical operation in history and the best suited for transport and supply drops in out of the way places. And in countries where the US is not involved in political security or viole (Read More)
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There is a growing channel of research exploring whether there's a relationship between border security and hunger. Nowhere is this question so critical as in Gaza and the West Bank where Israel constructed a security wall to (Read More)
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Today begins the World Summit on Food Security, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and scheduled to run through Wednesday in Rome, Italy.The FAO estimates that 1.02 billion people a (Read More)
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I'd like to think that there's a special place in a particularly fiery afterlife for anyone who attacks humanitarian aid workers.The UN announced today that six international humanitarian agencies are suspending operations af (Read More)
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Congo (DR), also known as DRC, Congo-Kinshasa, and former Zaire, currently hosts one of the most complex wars in the world. Why does it keep boiling on? What can concerned citizens do to contribute to solutions?Despite govern (Read More)
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Happy Veteran's Day, everyone. Last night we learned that after an unusually long gap, the Obama Administration is strongly hinting at the nomination of Rajiv Shah, a health administrator, former Gore adviser, and US Departme (Read More)
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"I feel like I'm watching George Bush."Such was the reaction of the person I sat next to yesterday while watching the White House's live webcast with US Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration. Indeed, Gration's rambling answers (Read More)
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After reading the latest UN report on Darfur, it should be abundantly clear to anyone that the Government of Sudan (GoS) is far from deserving cookies and gold stars.In fact, no one comes out of the Report of the Panel of Exp (Read More)
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Life isn’t easy for Roma anywhere in Europe, but it is about to become much more precarious for thousands of Kosovo Roma refugees living in Germany. Beginning early next year, the German government will start returning thousa (Read More)
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Let's applaud Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore's effort on behalf of the West African political leadership to jump into the boiling waters of Guinea-Conakry to attempt to prevent civil conflict. Back on September 28th, (Read More)
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Elena Milashina, a spirited young reporter for Russia's Novaya Gazeta, described the last time she saw her friend, Natalia Estemirova, a history teacher turned human rights investigator in Grozny, the capitol of wartime Chech (Read More)
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Kings of War:
UN gets by with little help from its friendsThe UN finds itself the victim of another complex terrorist attack. The implications of the attack on the Organisation will probably be manifold, but allow me to look at some of th (Read More)
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It’s difficult to keep up with all the reports of European governments abusing, detaining, and forcibly returning refugees, but I’m sure going to try. Let’s start with the mistreatment of Afghan refugees.Last month, French au (Read More)
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L.A. Times - Middle East:
After five United Nations employees and three others are killed in Kabul, the agency puts its workers under lockdown. A Taliban spokesman says the U.N. was targeted because of its election work. (Read More)
New York Times:
The offer to ship 10,000 tons of corn to North Korea in what would be the first government-funded humanitarian aid for the North in nearly two years.
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