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A Myanmar aid worker
"The junta is guilty of a crime against humanity"
Aid workers don't only provide relief goods, we have a ...

Amanda George
Tackling the stigma of TB in Kyrgyzstan
Rassoha, 31, and her son Rachid, 13, live on the ...

Amjad Bhatti
Pakistan cyclone warnings not acted on
"Those who prepare in advance, suffer less in emergencies," observed ...

Amy Leung
Myanmar uses militia to crush protests
Contrary to what you might think from international media reports ...

An international aid worker in Zimbabwe
Relief in a time of cholera, Zimbabwe-style
There is a saying in Zimbabwe that a "dying horse ...

Anastasia Moloney
Bogota's displaced youth turn to street arts instead of crime
Just a short walk from Bogota's presidential palace lies the ...

Anna Bifield
What's the cheapest way to deal with disasters?
"We had no idea that the cyclone was coming," says ...

Antonio Guterres
Migrants face growing racism
International migration is a defining characteristic of the contemporary world. ...

Babar Kabir
AID WORKER DIARY: Hunger and thirst after Cyclone Sidr
I have just visited Bagerhat, one of the areas worst ...

Becky Webb
Water diaries tell of life in Cambodia
Even now, during the dry season, water seems to ...

Ben Wisner
Is hunger really about not producing enough food?
Nothing is more humiliating than hunger, U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki ...

Busani Bafana
Zimbabwe's hunger deepens as election crisis bites
Abel Ndlovu, a subsistence farmer in the heart of Zimbabwe's ...

Caitlin Archer
Gaming for young humanitarians
Many games have sprung up across the internet intended to ...

CARE International
Flies, faeces and hand washing
Dr Julia Newton-Howes, CEO CARE Australia, is currently visiting CARE ...

Carla Koppell
Women parliamentarians push for peace in Sudan
This month, the U.N. Security Council will extend the stay ...

Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

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Chris Chapman
The EU must send troops to Congo now
Probably the most toxic aspect of the current conflict in ...

Cluster Munition Coalition
VIDEO BLOG: Global talks to ban cluster bombs (day 4-5)
Five days into the international negotiations to ban cluster bombs, ...

David Snyder
Tsunami survivors caught up in Sri Lanka conflict
In 2008, Caritas Internationalis - the umbrella organisation for 162 ...

Esther Lieu
How do you cook for a camp full of hungry Indian flood survivors?
I've flown to Bihar a few times in the last ...

Frances Crowley
Myanmar cyclone survivors face new threat
A family stares at us with a mixture of curiosity ...

Georgina Cooper
Women most at risk in Bangladesh disasters
Noorjahan Begam, 51, lives in southern Bangladesh and has first ...

Glenna Gordon
Ill on the inside: AIDS in Uganda's prisons
The gate of Mityana Prison, an hour east of Kampala, ...

Grant Assenheimer
Speechless
Last week, I spent one afternoon visiting patients with one ...

Greg Elder
The view from the ground in Gonaives
The Haitian city of Gonaives was still only reachable by ...

HelpAge International
Walking the path of the elderly in Bulengo camp
Benedicte Vene is a freelance communications consultant who has worked ...

Humanitarian Policy Group
Beyond Darfur: agency expulsion raises concerns for neglected regions
Sara Pantuliano is a research fellow and programme leader at ...

Iraqi women's organisations
Heroines - the daily life of Iraq's war widows
Eighty-two percent of the 2.4 million people displaced inside Iraq ...

Jake Phelan
Aid workers have lost their sanctity in Afghanistan
I didn't know Gayle Williams. But the fact that she ...

Jan Kellett
ICC warrant for Bashir means more deaths in Darfur
This is a blog in three parts (click for part ...

Jaya Murthy
AID WORKER DIARY: Between lava rock and a hard place in Congo
The southern part of Congo's North Kivu province - called ...

Jill Clare Mowbray
AID WORKER DIARY: Birth, barbecued maize and the weekly shop
Many more donkey and carts are seen on a daily ...

Joe Lowry
AID WORKER DIARY: Let hope be last casualty in Myanmar
Last Tuesday fortnight, and I'm in my regular job as ...

John Magrath
Climate change 'last straw' for poor Ugandans
Diary: Climate impacts in Uganda - Part five Uganda's climate ...

Justin Derbyshire
A journey into Central African Republic's bandit country
The car is packed tight with supplies: an assessment kit, ...

Kate Holt
The treacherous journey out of 'Africa's backdoor'
Amera is 36 years old. A widow, she has four ...

Katherine Arie
Untangling Rwanda's genocide investigation
Kudos to the French press for its coverage of the ...

Kenneth Bacon

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Kultida Samabuddhi
THAILAND: 'No regrets over cheap AIDS drugs' - ex-health chief
Two years after he outraged drugs manufacturers by overriding their ...

Luciano Calestini

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MapAction
Swamp camp for Namibia flood displaced
Lynne Kirkham is a volunteer with the emergency mapping NGO ...

Martin Adhola
A trek looms for Kenya's refugees
Martin Adhola meets some of the thousands of people displaced ...

Matthew Russell Lee
Who'll pay to keep Uganda's rebels sweet?
When indicted war criminals want to travel, who do they ...

Mercedes Sayagues
AIDS, zombies, sex and death
Take your pick. What has shaped the slow and complicated ...

Merlin
Gaza: Giving medical care in the only building in sight
Gaza Strip - March 19, 2009 Joanna Kotcher, Merlin's Health ...

Michel Mungungu
AID WORKER DIARY: Crisis in eastern Congo
Here is Michel Mungungu's diary documenting the humanitarian crisis erupting ...

Mike Wolfe
Letter from PNG: "Jesus wants you to build a toilet"
"Jesus wants you to build a toilet for the women," ...

MRDF
Helping hand for Cameroon's lonely elderly
Sitting in a tiny, mud-brick hut in a remote part ...

Mustafa Qadri
Earthquake adds to Pakistan's humanitarian woes
It was in the early hours of the morning on ...

Nino Gvianishvili
What about those who have nothing?
Before it closed down on October 23, I went to ...

Oxfam
The house that drives you crazy: Mental health and well-being at times of disaster
Between 2007 and 2008, the People's Rural Development Association (PRDA), ...

P.V. Krishnan
Making a New Nepal - the agony of uncertainty
"Wish me all the best and a New Nepal," said ...

Patrick Mathangani
Sex pests trawl Kenyan displacement camps
In the violence-plagued Rift Valley town of Nakuru, everybody was ...

Peter Bosshard
Bailing out environmental subprime lenders?
My phone conversation with Henry Paulson Last night, I got ...

Peter Newborne
Why we need a year to talk about toilets
The United Nations launches the International Year of Sanitation on ...

Preti Taneja
Displaced Iraqis shouldn't be made to return
"Iraqi refugees are burdens here," a Jordanian government spokesman tells ...

Rachel Pounds
AID WORKER DIARY: In limbo in post-election Zimbabwe
While the outside world continues to speculate on Zimbabwe's future, ...

Ray Chambers
Toll of malaria high for African women
Malaria infects one quarter of a billion people each year. ...

Robin Giri
Strength in numbers after Bihar floods
Muzaffarpur, Bihar - There is a saying that it takes ...

Saeed Taji Farouky
Fairtrade branches into Palestinian olive oil
When Mohammad Issa wants to visit his farm in the ...

Sara Fajardo
Storms turn Haiti's roads into rivers
Holly Inurreta, Catholic Relief Services' regional technical advisor for emergencies, ...

Sarah Wheeler
What do you tell your friends if you're a Brazilian teenager with HIV?
One topic on the discussion table at this year's big ...

Sean Moorhouse
Juggling footballs and hand grenades in Congo
Somewhere in the vast sea of elephant grass that makes ...

Shujuan Lin
CHINA: AIDS campaigner sparks debate with condom gift to daughter
When hugely popular Chinese actor Pu Cunxin revealed to the ...

Sven Harmeling
Europe's half-hearted plan to finance climate action
These are challenging times for those of us concerned with ...

Toni Oyry
Iraqi refugees see little hope of returning home
For Ziad, an Iraqi Christian exiled in Lebanon, returning home ...

World Vision
Queuing for water
This blog is written by Dan Teng'o, Communications Coordinator for ...

Yinka Otoki
NIGERIA: Former nurse battles HIV discrimination in the work place
Faced with the uphill task of trying to persuade Nigerian ...

Alina Lisina
LATVIA: AIDS means life not death
While HIV/AIDS is widely perceived as a death sentence, for ...

Amelia Bookstein Kyazze
Vietnam's children get ready for climate disasters
People take preparation for disasters seriously in Vietnam's Tien Gian ...

Amjad Mohamed-Saleem
Sri Lanka: Bridge builds trust between Muslims and Tamils
Thashreeq Moulawi remembers his childhood well. The four-to-five-kilometre walk each ...

an international aid worker expelled from Darfur
Khartoum using aid as bargaining chip
People have asked why this blog is anonymous. While we ...

An NGO in Sri Lanka
Eyewitness account from Sri Lanka
A partner NGO supported by Christian Aid UK-Ireland has gathered ...

Andrew Stroehlein
News from Darfur
Getting information out of Darfur has always been difficult for ...

Anne Madden
HIV threat looms over China's evolution
Zhang Ran is a child of evolutionary China, a country ...

Ashley Clements
Isolation or engagement; What's next for the people of Myanmar?
Visiting the cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy Delta of Myanmar is like stepping ...

Bart Stidham
NGO Tech Talk: Making the most of AlertNet RSS feeds
AlertNet has an amazing and little know feature that allows ...

Ben Ramalingam
Don't chase headlines, chase quality news
A leading UK newspaper recently reported a warning by Britain ...

Betty Kweyu
AID WORKER DIARY: Learning to cope with Kenya's nightmare
Betty Kweyu is leading CARE International's emergency response in Kenya's ...

CAFOD
Gaza: Black smoke blocking the sun
This blog is written by Hatem Shurrab who works for ...

Camilla Olson
Burma: Refugees Stagnant in Malaysia
It's been a year since I went on mission to ...

Caritas
Waiting for peace in Congo
Peter Risholm is an Information Officer for Caritas Norway. In ...

Catholic Relief Services
A year's worth of mud in Gonaives
Donal Reilly is Senior Emergency Advisor with Catholic Relief Services. ...

Children International
Global Food Crisis: Meet Three Families Fighting for Survival
Written by Scott Cotter While many of us are feeling ...

Chris Northey
Rain and sadness in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar
It's raining every day now in Myanmar, very heavily; monsoon ...

David Darg
Homeless Italian quake survivors cling to destroyed village
Along the road linking the coastal city of Pescara to ...

Elisabeth Roesch
In Congo war, some wounds are hard to see
Another trip to new displacement sites in Goma brings more ...

Farah Milhar

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Frank Nyakairu

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Glenda Cooper
Is it time for Media Social Responsibility?
Earlier this month at a conference in Madrid I took ...

Graham Wood
Will the S. Korean kidnappings affect aid workers' safety?
The release of the South Korean hostages in Afghanistan is ...

Greg Barrow
Credibility, not fame, makes a winning celebrity ambassador
His fellow athletes call him "The Gentleman", but to hundreds ...

Gregory Berger & Ben Wisner
Mexico's flood survivors blackmailed into biofuels
Did you know that Mexican farmers who lost everything in ...

Hugo Slim
Viewing the poor through Western eyes
In global campaigns on issues like landmines, trade, medicines or ...

Ibrahim Adam
A day in the life of a 12-year-old in a Darfur camp
Ibrahim Adam, aged 12, spoke to Alun McDonald from Oxfam ...

Islamic Relief
How can families rebuild their homes?
Hatem Shurrab works for Islamic Relief in Gaza City. He ...

James Darcy
Myanmar cyclone deaths could have been prevented
We may never know how many were killed in the ...

Jasmine Whitbread
Gaza: What harm can paper do?
I walk out of the building at the crossing into ...

Jennifer Robin Raj
INDIA: New guidelines set for HIV reporting
BANGALORE - India's press watchdog has issued new guidelines for ...

Joanne Offer
Helping refugee women help themselves in Nairobi
Kenya is currently home to some of the largest refugee ...

Joel Charny
Dadaab: Ground truth from N Zero
We were just stepping out of our vehicle in the ...

Jon Tinker
AlertNet VoxBlog: Is there still a Third World?
Does it still mean anything to divide the world into ...

Karambu Ringera
KENYA BLOG: I hardly recognise my own country
When I left Nairobi for Nakuru to visit people displaced ...

Kate Thomas
Liberians sing the refugee blues
In a world fairer than this, Sarah Mayson might have ...

Katie Chalk
A million dollar view in impoverished East Timor
Every morning, when Madalena opens her front door, she is ...

Kristie van de Wetering
Haiti situation 'at breaking point'
"The situation is at its breaking point in Gonaives," reported ...

Lauralee Morris
Cancer
Tell him that I think he has cancer, I ...

Manal
Under blockade: Sewage on our doorstep in Gaza
It's hard to imagine that someone could be excited about ...

Marie Cacace
Media star among the suffering population of Georgia
Along with other residents of the Gori District, Venera received ...

Matthew Cochrane
Crocs, snakes and hippos add to Nambia flood misery
"That's my house," said Dennis as he rolled up in ...

Maureen Lynch
War's heartache not over for separated families
"One day she disappeared." The young Ethiopian professor said sadly ...

Mercy Corps
Three aid worker stories from Gaza
Three Mercy Corps staff members talk of their experiences during ...

Michael Kleinman
Aid worker safety: Glass half full, glass half empty
This blog post is taken from Michael Kleinman's change.org blog ...

Mike Edwards
Is military planning the answer to climate uncertainty?
Pretty much everyone working on climate change wants certainty - ...

Milly Katana
"True HIV heroes"
With the increased availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) there are ...

MSF in Asia
The challenges of treating TB in Myanmar - MSF
Kyi Kyi Win* holds her four-year-old daughter and sits quietly ...

Nikolaj Nielsen
Broken Georgian promises to refugees
When Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili traveled to the Georgian-Abkhaz ceasefire ...

Omar
Under blockade: A child's birthday in Gaza
Another clear and starry night in Gaza - and cold, ...

Oxfam GB
Nappies and spaghetti: the challenges of getting aid into Gaza
This blog is written by Michael Bailey, Advocacy and Media ...

Patrick Duplat
For aid agencies, security comes at a price
In late January 2008, three aid workers from the international ...

Peter Biro
The plight of Thailand's migrant workers
About an hour's drive west of Thailand's second largest city ...

Peter Kessler
How will the asylum system treat climate refugees?
Given the significant changes that have recently been recorded in ...

Plan International
On the Road to Copenhagen 1
Janani Vivekananda is Plan International UK’s Disaster Risk Reduction Policy ...

Puja Awasthi
INDIA: Women taught to talk about AIDS
Jyoti Tiwari is a determined young woman on a mission ...

Raphael Marambii
KENYA BLOG: "Peace feels good, I can tell you!"
I am glad to be the bearer of good news ...

Refugees International
Matt Dillon on Supporting South Sudan
When I got home from my visit to south Sudan, ...

Rosalie Hughes
Nepalese women free from war but not violence
Six months ago 16-year-old Ashmi was preparing to put red ...

Samir Elhawary
Learning from mistakes a year after Peru's quake
August 15th is the first anniversary of the Peruvian earthquake ...

Sarah Jacobs
Child rape on the rise in eastern Congo
Save the Children Africa specialist Sarah Jacobs travelled to eastern ...

Save the Children
PHOTOBLOG: Two stories of child hunger in Kenya
This blog is written by Colin Crowley, Multimedia Officer for ...

Shannon Lawrence
Damming for development: Lessons from Laos
A Lao man, his face and hands hardened by the ...

Steven Cohen
In a Gentle Way
It would be fair to say that before coming to ...

Tania Boler & David Archer
You can't avoid politics if you really want to fight AIDS
HIV exposes deep moral divisions between the people society deems ...

Unnikrishnan PV
Rebuilding Kenya: Giving people a voice
Across Kenya, people are anxiously awaiting the outcome of mediation ...

Yao Bongoma
Choosing between water and food in eastern Congo
I'm back in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of ...

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