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  • Humanitarian Issues: Learning to work as an emergency team
    18 May 2012 - 4:16pm
    Just outside the village of Gollion in Switzerland, 37 emergency response specialists recently took part in a training exercise designed to give them the skills they will need when they are first on the scene of a major disaster. The United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) training...
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  • DR Congo: Stepping up support for two million displaced
    16 May 2012 - 1:47pm
    Humanitarian agencies in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are providing basic support as the number of displaced people across the country reaches 2 million for the first time in nearly three years. Over the past nine months, the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in DRC...
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  • Afghanistan: Humanitarian chief calls for continued investment to...
    11 May 2012 - 2:43pm
    The Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, ended her visit to Afghanistan with a call for continued investment in human development and livelihoods. Speaking today at a news conference in Kabul, Ms. Amos said investment in human development and prevention measures was needed to reduce vulnerability...
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  • Haiti: Child cured of “mystical” disease
    10 May 2012 - 11:49am
    Seven-year-old Pierre Laban lives in Savanne Ragé, a small village in Haiti´s Upper Artibonite region. As he was returning home from school one afternoon in March, Pierre started vomiting and suffering from diarrhoea. His 64-year-old grandmother, Filise Pierre Louis, immediately started...
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  • Afghanistan: Humanitarian chief highlights plight of displaced people
    8 May 2012 - 4:40pm
    During talks in Kabul, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, highlighted the continuing humanitarian needs of Afghans affected by conflict and natural disasters.    Speaking today at a joint news conference with Wais Ahmad Barmak, Afghanistan’s Minister of...
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