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  • Humanitarian Issues: International justice begins at home
    9 November 2011 - 11:02am
    Countries need to take more consistent national action against the perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, turning to international justice mechanisms only as a last option, policy-makers heard at the International Peace Institute last week. In a meeting hosted by OCHA and...
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  • Central America Floods: Keeping unborn children healthy
    8 November 2011 - 6:30pm
    The women began to arrive from early morning as soon as they were informed the mobile clinic was coming to the Health Centre of Caluco in the Salvadorean Department of Sonsonate. Some women arrived accompanied by a friend, others arrived on their own. The majority of them were pregnant, who had taken...
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  • PAKISTAN: Keeping the plight of the north-western displaced alive
    2 November 2011 - 11:42am
    In April this year, the Government of Pakistan said it was time for the residents of Jalozai camp to go home. Jalozai is one of the largest camps for people displaced by conflict in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in north western Pakistan. In late 2008, thousands of families were forced to flee from fighting...
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  • The Philippines: "I always fear the floods will sweep my...
    1 November 2011 - 3:53pm
    Mariam Usman has just rebuilt her home on wooden stilts, and the memory of the floods that swallowed her village in June is still fresh. “I always fear that the floods will sweep my children away,” says Ms Usman. A 36-year-old mother of six, she has good reason to be anxious. The small...
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  • The HC Interview: Central African Republic
    31 October 2011 - 1:14pm
    Working as Humanitarian Coordinator in Bangui since October 2009, Bo Schack has seen new efforts to improve health, education and agriculture in the Central African Republic, after years of chronic neglect. Infant and maternal mortality rates remain amongst the highest in the world. But in recent years...
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