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Woman + disability = double discrimination

Baroness Lindsay Northover, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development, 13 March 2015 - Disability, Girls & Women

...The wheelchairs were then nowhere to be seen. And the reason? The wheelchairs weren’t in any way appropriate to the area in which they lived. They sold the wheelchairs for...

World Humanitarian Day in South Sudan

Henry Donati, Programme Manager, Humanitarian Response Group, 19 August 2014 - Africa, Humanitarian

The helicopter banks down steeply to the left, and we’re approaching Akobo town; the miles of flat scrub land and acacia trees have given way to a scattering of huts and one-story, corrugated iron-roofed brick buildings. We hover over a …

Typhoon in Tacloban

Henry Donati, Programme Manager, Humanitarian Response Group, 29 November 2013 - Asia, Humanitarian

It was the images of utter devastation and destruction in Tacloban which put Typhoon Haiyan at the top of the news stories in the UK. A giant cargo ship hurled like a match box by the ferocious force of the …

Saving Syria's children

Saleyha Ahsan, Accident and Emergency Doctor, 6 November 2013 - Development Debates, Health, Humanitarian

...her family had fled their home in Damascus because it was too dangerous to stay. She told us she collects water every day for her family now living in the...

Woman + disability = double discrimination

World Humanitarian Day in South Sudan

Typhoon in Tacloban

Saving Syria's children

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