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Humanitarian aid (also called succour) is material or logistical assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to humanitarian crises.
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Humanitarian aid workers belonging to UN organisations, PVOs / NGOs or the Red Cross / Red Crescent have traditionally enjoyed both international legal protection, and de facto ...
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The Taliban s aid its gunmen opened fire on an aid group's vehicle in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing four International Rescue Committee workers and prompting the ...
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PASADENA - Two volunteers and an emergency response vehicle will leave today from the San Gabriel Pomona Valley Chapter of the Red Cross in Pasadena for Fort Worth, Texas, where ...
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Myanmar needs more than food and shelter. It needs human expertise for everything from cleaning water to mental health counseling ? and right now, those experts can't get to the ...
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International aid workers have finally begun entering Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta area after being blocked for more than three weeks by the country's military junta ...
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IRIN, May 30, 2006 Seven aid workers killed in Afghanistan 3 of the victims were women KABUL, 30 May (IRIN) - Seven aid workers lost their lives in Afghanistan on Tuesday in two ...
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No one has yet claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of an American aid worker who was snatched from her car on the outskirts of Kandahar Saturday morning, officials with her ...
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/28/afghan.aidworker/
Serving in regions ravaged by war, famine, or natural disaster, aid workers regularly confront the suffering of others. Trauma that workers experience on the job, however ...
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Hardliners within the Islamist opposition are stepping up their attacks and kidnapping aid workers in an attempt to sabotage the peace talks. A cease-fire was supposed to have gone ...
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More than three months after being detained by the Taliban, eight Western aid workers were flown from Afghanistan to Pakistan by U.S. military helicopters, U.S. officials told CNN ...
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The death toll from a powerful cyclone that battered coastal areas of Bangladesh surpassed 2,300 on Sunday as aid organizations tried for a third day to reach survivors.
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Several French aid workers are charged with trying to smuggle 103 children they claimed were orphans from Darfur, but in reality were children with...
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World news for Wenatchee, Washington ... A family of cyclone survivors sit in a hut they built for shelter in the Delta region of Myanmar, Monday. (AP photo)
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