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  • The Broader View: Why communicating with disaster-struck communities...
    5 December 2011 - 12:48pm
    Internews’ Director of Humanitarian Media Jacobo Quintanilla explains why providing people with clear information during a crisis, and listening to their concerns, is as important as providing food, shelter and medicine. 17-year-old Suuban* endured 16-hours of child labour on the back of a truck...
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  • A picture is worth a thousand tweets
    2 December 2011 - 2:30pm
    Maybe it's time to update the old cliché: after all, who reads 1,000 words these days? A toddler from Cote d'Ivoire bathes in a bucket - his family just one of thousands displaced in election-related violence in 2011. His expression... -- that's already over the limit for Twitter and...
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  • Haiti: US$231 million needed for 2012, as people continue to cope...
    1 December 2011 - 6:25pm
    Almost two years after the devastating earthquake of January 2010, Haiti is showing signs of progress, but hundreds of thousands of people still need help, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) Nigel Fisher has warned. Speaking to reporters in New York and Geneva ahead of the 2012 appeal launch for...
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