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17 August 2012 - 5:53pmOn World Humanitarian Day, we remember our colleagues who have been killed while working to help others. In 2011, 308 humanitarian workers were killed, injured or kidnapped. Most of them were local staff, and most of them were targeted because of their work. This year, we are marking World... -
29 June 2012 - 5:42pmSanitation conditions in camps for displaced people across Haiti have improved considerably over the past two months, following efforts to repair, maintain and replace latrines, according to humanitarian agencies there. Earlier this year, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) allocated US$3.5... -
7 June 2012 - 9:26amHumanitarian partners in Haiti are bracing for an increase in new cases of cholera as the hurricane season gets underway. According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), heavy rains and flooding could contaminate water sources and trigger a surge of up to 4,000 new cholera cases per week in the... -
10 May 2012 - 11:49amSeven-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... -
4 April 2012 - 9:11pmSome 180 women from communities affected by flooding and armed violence in Colombia’s Córdoba department have come together in the town of Santa Cruz de Lorica to build a women’s shelter. Although some men helped behind the scenes, the women themselves built the shelter and painted it,...
