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  • Myanmar: UN aid convoy crosses Kachin frontlines
    19 June 2013 - 11:28am
    For the first time in nearly a year, a UN-led aid convoy has been permitted to cross into non-government controlled parts of Myanmar’s Kachin State to deliver food and other lifesaving relief to communities displaced by conflict. Over the past two years, UN agencies and international humanitarian...
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  • Myanmar: Children affected by Rakhine conflict miss a year of school
    13 June 2013 - 3:20pm
    Inter-communal violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state in June and October 2012 displaced an estimated 140,000 people. Many fled to temporary camps where they have been living without adequate shelter or sanitation facilities. Continued tensions between communities means that these families are still...
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  • DRC: Humanitarian agencies fight child exploitation
    12 June 2013 - 9:57am
    “Quite a few of the most beautiful homes in Bukavu are built on the sweat of children working in the mines,” says a child protection officer who works in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He can rattle off the names of dozens of artisanal mines that surround South Kivu’s. He...
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  • Aid worker diary: Building resilience in Tajikistan’s isolated east
    11 June 2013 - 11:47am
    Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Province sits on Tajikistan’s far eastern fringe. It is isolated, sparsely populated and, like most of Tajikistan, highly prone to disasters such as flooding and mudslides. There are very few international organizations present in the area and little attention is paid to...
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  • Syria: UN issues unprecedented humanitarian appeal
    7 June 2013 - 11:52am
    The United Nation’s Humanitarian Chief, Valerie Amos announced an unprecedented revision to the humanitarian appeal for Syria in Geneva today. UN agencies and humanitarian partners are appealing for US$4.4 billion to assist millions of people affected by Syria’s conflict in 2013. This is the...
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