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Analysis: Helping local aid workers build meaningful careers
Ouagadougou :: Burkina Faso | 5 days ago
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Oxfam's strategic project manager for humanitarian management and coordination, Sarah Lumsdon, said staff at many humanitarian organizations often do not have the time to manage their staff properly, to help them move forward, or to give even minimal
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Syrian rebels on IHL: In their own words
Dubai :: United Arab Emirates | 5 days ago
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Like Syrian regime forces, Syria's multitude of rebel fighters have faced growing criticism in recent months over violations of international humanitarian law (IHL), including war crimes, with groups from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch
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Africa: Band-Aid for a Broken Leg
Luanda :: Angola | 19 days ago
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The recollections of a young MSF doctor provide a refreshing take on the humanitarian aid worker experience...Like in Tony Vaux's The Selfish Altruist , and Emergency Sex And Other Desperate Measures: True Stories from a Warzone by Kenneth Cain,
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Red tape hits humanitarian work in NW Pakistan
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 23 days ago
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Delivering humanitarian aid in northwestern Pakistan has recently been hampered by attacks on schools , aid workers and polio vaccination teams , and bureaucratic procedures for aid projects are making matters worse...Since 2005, procedures to
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Sectarian tensions in Myanmar limits aid worker access
Bangkok :: Thailand | 1 month ago
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Ongoing tensions between Buddhist and Muslim communities in Myanmar's western Rakhine State have created a threatening environment for aid workers, hindering assistance to more than 127,000 displaced persons ...The majority of the displaced are
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Is Turkey's approach to Syrian refugees sustainable?
Nizip :: Turkey | 1 month ago
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On a small piece of land beside the rushing Euphrates River, 908 white, prefabricated container homes sit surrounded by double-barbed wire fences and guard towers...Nizip 2 Container City is one of two new Turkish camps opened recently to accommodate
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Despite new police presence, security concerns persist at Syrian refugee camp
Aleppo :: Syria | 1 month ago
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The Jordanian government is implementing new measures to improve security for the Syrian refugees at Za'atari camp, but aid workers say the efforts are limited by funding constraints and have yet to make a difference...The camp, built to accommodate
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Pakistani daily worried over aid workers' restrictions
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 3 months ago
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An editorial in the Dawn Monday said that it was a move that "smells uncomfortably of paranoia of the sort Pakistan is wont to suffer from". "But if the raison d'tre of a state and government is even remotely understood as catering to the needs of
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Challenges abound as aid reaches Yemeni¿½s south
Say'ūn :: Yemen | 4 months ago
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Nimah Saleh Mohammed returned to her home in al-Kawd, Abyan, where there is no water or electricity There was a big push by the government to rapidly shift assistance from Aden to Abyan with a view to support returns, said Joy Singhal, the deputy
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WASH woes for Myanmari¿½s Rakhine IDPs
Yangon :: Myanmar | 4 months ago
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in Myanmar's western Rakhine State as the weather gets warmer, say aid workers...According to the UN, some 115,000 people are still displaced in Rakhine following inter-communal violence in June and October 2012, in which thousands of homes and
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