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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... -
22 August 2012 - 12:06pmWeeks of festivities took place in the Caucasus and Central Asia to commemorate World Humanitarian Day (19 August). For the first time, people in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan joined in the global celebration of people helping people. In Azerbaijan, the United Nations Department of Public Information organized... -
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... -
17 August 2012 - 6:01pmOn 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...
