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  • oPt: ERC Amos calls for violence to end in the West Bank and Gaza
    15 May 2011 - 10:51pm
    ERC Valerie Amos visited Ramallah, East Jerusalem and Area C of the West Bank on 15 May, a day of violent protest in the occupied Palestinian territory. In Ramallah, Ms. Amos met with President Mahmoud Abbas and also with Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. The ERC reiterated the determination of the United...
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  • oPt: ERC Amos calls for an end to forced displacement
    14 May 2011 - 5:34pm
    On the first day of her four-day visit to the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and Israel, Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) Valerie Amos witnessed firsthand the impact of the Barrier on Palestinian communities in the Jerusalem governorate. The Barrier is the single largest obstacle to Palestinian...
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  • LIBYA: Migrants feared drowned while fleeing by sea
    13 May 2011 - 11:45pm
    As fighting continues, the number of people trying to reach Europe by sea has risen since the crisis in Libya began. There are major concerns as people fleeing the violence are often using unsafe and overloaded vessels. On 6 May, a boat carrying people fleeing Libya broke up shortly after departing Tripoli...
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  • ERC Amos’ first visit to oPt and Israel
    13 May 2011 - 10:39pm
    Valerie Amos, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, will starting a four-day trip to the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and Israel tomorrow, with EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response,...
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  • Western Union calls for other companies to fund CERF before crisis...
    11 May 2011 - 8:38pm
    OCHA and Western Union called on the global corporate community to raise US$500,000 to celebrate the fifth anniversary of CERF, the Central Emergency Response Fund. CEO Hikmet Ersek launched the initiative on 10 May, encouraging peers to pre-fund life-saving disaster response work through CERF. In 2011,...
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