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30 August 2012 - 5:36pmThe UN Humanitarian Chief, Valerie Amos, concluded her first visit to Mali today with an appeal to the international community and donors not to forget the millions of people facing a food and nutrition crisis. The crisis is affecting nearly 30 per cent of the Malian population of 15.8 million,... -
28 August 2012 - 1:10pmOn World Humanitarian Day this year (19 August) we celebrated the most basic principle of humanitarian work: People Helping People. For inspiration, and to remind everyone of the extraordinary things ordinary people are capable of doing, we asked professional aid workers to tell us a story about someone... -
24 August 2012 - 12:41pmDavid Gressly is Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the relief effort in nine countries of the Sahel region of West Africa: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and the Gambia. An estimated 18.7 million people in the region are suffering the effects of a food and... -
23 August 2012 - 10:39amThe United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) has created a set of 500 freely available humanitarian icons to help relief workers present information about emergencies and crises quickly and simply. When a disaster strikes, it is vital that all the different humanitarian... -
20 August 2012 - 7:36pmThe World Humanitarian Day 2012 campaign has made social media history by sharing more than one billion messages of hope encouraging people to do something good for someone else. The campaign, which was launched 2 August, asked people around the world to pledge to help another person on World...
