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  • Interview: Humanitarian Coordinator for the Philippines
    22 March 2013 - 11:10am
    The Philippines was recently ranked the third most disaster-prone country in the world. Every year, the country is hit by powerful typhoons, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The ongoing conflict in the southern island of Mindanao adds to the hardship. Luiza Carvalho took up the post of...
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  • Humanitarian Issues: A new way to access information
    21 March 2013 - 11:03am
    What is Humanitarian Kiosk? One of the challenges faced by humanitarian workers is access to timely, relevant and accurate information.   New technology provides an opportunity for humanitarian workers to develop better ways to access and share this information, and get aid to those who need it...
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  • Japan: An earthquake, a tsunami – and a handwritten newspaper
    15 March 2013 - 6:42pm
    When one of the most technologically sophisticated countries in the world is hit by a triple emergency, should we count on web platforms and social media to deliver lifesaving information? Not necessarily, according to a new report by Internews into the communications aspects of the 2011 earthquake,...
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  • Aid worker diary: Japan’s tsunami
    8 March 2013 - 4:44pm
    On 11 March 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake followed by a series of massive tsunamis killed more than 15,000 people in Japan’s Tohoku region, and left some 2,600 people missing. Two years later, approximately 315,000 people remain displaced across the country. As the country commemorates the second...
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  • Sudan: Families from South Sudan stranded in Khartoum
    6 March 2013 - 4:49pm
    Thousands of South Sudanese families are stranded in Sudan’s capital Khartoum waiting for an opportunity to return home, but insecurity and lack of resources have been hampering efforts by humanitarian agencies to transport them safely back to their places of origin. "Since the independence of...
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