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February 13, 2013 | Refugees International | Tagged as: Africa, Burkina Faso, Congress, Mali, Niger, U.S. Administration, Humanitarian Response, Protection & Security, Women & Children
The U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold a hearing tomorrow to press the Obama administration on its plans “to work with African forces to rid the region of militants,” in the words of the committee’s chairman, Ed Royce. The hearing will most likely focus on security and counter-terrorism, but there are humanitarian concerns that must not be neglected. 
February 07, 2013 | Michel Gabaudan | Tagged as: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Humanitarian Response, Middle East
Recent pledges by Arab states could mark the beginning of a new era - one in which the Arabian Peninsula assumes real leadership in the UN's aid efforts around the world.
February 01, 2013 | Marcy Hersh | Tagged as: Africa, DR Congo, Rwanda, Humanitarian Response, Protection & Security, Women & Children
What is something that you do no less than ten times every day? Check email? Send a text message? No less than ten times a day, Colette listens to the story of a woman who has just been raped.
January 31, 2013 | Mark Yarnell | Tagged as: Africa, Kenya, Somalia, Humanitarian Response, Protection & Security, Women & Children
Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp is the largest of its kind in the world: a sprawling, jam-packed community housing nearly half a million vulnerable Somali refugees.
January 23, 2013 | Melanie Teff | Tagged as: Africa, Kenya, Somalia, Humanitarian Response, Protection & Security, Women & Children
The Kenyan High Court has granted a temporary order prohibiting the government from moving city-dwelling refugees to camps.