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Start Fund: responding to lesser known humanitarian crises

Matthew Benson, Humanitarian Programme Manager, 21 August 2015 - Humanitarian, Other

We all too often see in the media, news concerning large scale humanitarian disasters, like the earthquake in Nepal or Typhoon Haiyan in The Philippines. It is right that there is a focus on responding to the humanitarian need of …

World Humanitarian Day: the challenges we face

Yves Daccord, Director General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, 19 August 2015 - Humanitarian

Yemen. Gaza. Iraq. Ukraine. And looking back a little further: South Sudan. Syria. Central African Republic. We are in a world where huge catastrophes have almost become commonplace. We see how eruptions of violence can bubble out of control and …

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 …

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