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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 ...
A Myanmar writer
Myanmar cyclone: WFP lifts veil on aid operation
Most reports on Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar's biggest natural disaster in ...
Action Against Hunger

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Adele Waugaman
How a "solar suitcase" is saving women's lives in Nigeria
When obstetrician Laura Stachel arrived in rural Nigeria to collect ...
Amanda George
Internal migration in Kyrgyzstan
It is easy to underestimate the Kyrgyz citizen registration system, ...
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 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
Google Wave for NGOs
I've been playing around with the Google Wave preview ...
Anna Ridout
Finding solutions to eastern Congo's violence
For six months now, I've been asking myself and others, ...
Antonio Guterres
A Terrible Dilemma
UNHCR is still in shock over the recent brutal killing ...
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 ...
British Red Cross
The failure to prepare for disasters in Asia Pacific
This blog is written by Mike Goodhand, Head of Disaster ...
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
Hunger or HIV: the choice facing some mothers
Michelle Hough, a communication officer with Caritas Internationalis, has recently ...
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 Houston
Tari, the first weeks
In some ways it seems like Ive only been here ...
Christian Aid
Rats and unstable structures in quake-hit Padang
This blog is written by Omar Mohammed, Christian Aid Humanitarian ...
Concern Worldwide
Kenya: Drought Threatens a Way of Life
Anne O’Mahoney, Country Director, Kenya, Concern Worldwide "The hope is ...
DARA
Gaza: Money that doesn't talk
This blog is written by Ricardo Solé, Deputy Director of ...
David Snyder
Tsunami survivors caught up in Sri Lanka conflict
In 2008, Caritas Internationalis - the umbrella organisation for 162 ...
Elisabeth Roesch
In Congo war, some wounds are hard to see
Another trip to new displacement sites in Goma brings more ...
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 ...
Glenda Cooper
Is it time for Media Social Responsibility?
Earlier this month at a conference in Madrid I took ...
Graciela Chichilnisky
Foot in carbon trading door for small nations?
In June 2009, a group of 43 small island nations ...
Grant Assenheimer
Right... a medical organisation!
When there is an emergency referral to the hospital, it ...
Greg Elder
The view from the ground in Gonaives
The Haitian city of Gonaives was still only reachable by ...
HelpAge International
Older people struggle as "survival of the fittest" rules in northern Kenya
Stephen Barrett has just returned from Kenya where he worked ...
Humanitarian Policy Group
Beyond Darfur: agency expulsion raises concerns for neglected regions
Sara Pantuliano is a research fellow and programme leader at ...
Ilan Kelman
Can disaster diplomacy work to address climate change?
"Climate crisis forces enemies to cooperate for a deal," shout ...
IRC
Tackling Child Labour in Uganda
Written by Michael Scharff, communications intern with the IRC in ...
Jake Phelan
Aid workers have lost their sanctity in Afghanistan
I didn't know Gayle Williams. But the fact that she ...
Jan Kellett
Humanitarian money - it's not just about the cash
Jan Kellett is programme leader of the Global Humanitarian Assistance ...
Jaya Murthy
AID WORKER DIARY: Between lava rock and a hard place in Congo
The southern part of Congo's North Kivu province - called ...
Jessica Mercer
Can indigenous knowledge reduce climate disaster risk?
I have just spent three weeks in Northern Kenya among ...
Joanne Offer
Trained villagers help fight malaria in South Sudan
This rainy season will bring sweet relief to many in ...
Joel Charny
Climate Displacement: The Muddle on Terminology
As fears of the global impact of climate change grow, ...
Jon Tinker
AlertNet VoxBlog: Is there still a Third World?
Does it still mean anything to divide the world into ...
Kamal Raj Sigdel

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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 ...
Liao Tian

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MAG
Clearing mortar shells and surviving the roads in Laos
This blog is written by Tom Morgan, MAG Regional Information ...
MapAction
Swamp camp for Namibia flood displaced
Lynne Kirkham is a volunteer with the emergency mapping NGO ...
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
Wednesday award for the worst place in the world
This blog post is taken from Michael Kleinman's change.org blog ...
Mike Edwards
What does climate change mean for beauty?
For those of us who admire Antoni Gaudi's architecture, it ...
Milly Katana
"True HIV heroes"
With the increased availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) there are ...
MRDF
Helping hand for Cameroon's lonely elderly
Sitting in a tiny, mud-brick hut in a remote part ...
Muslim Aid
The suffering under the surface in Gaza
This blog is written by Maryam Mohsin and Catriona Moss, ...
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
Testimonies from eastern Congo: civilians caught in conflict have their say
The following testimonies were collected by protection teams involved in ...
Patrick Duplat
For aid agencies, security comes at a price
In late January 2008, three aid workers from the international ...
Paul Conneally
Cholera still stalks Zimbabwe
It is likely that at some point in the coming ...
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 ...
Plan International
Children's stories from Pakistan
This blog is written by Plan staff in the Bunair ...
Puja Awasthi
INDIA: Women taught to talk about AIDS
Jyoti Tiwari is a determined young woman on a mission ...
Raj Patel
Better ways to tackle hunger than recycling old policies
*Raj Patel is author of ”Stuffed and Starved ", and ...
Ray Chambers
Toll of malaria high for African women
Malaria infects one quarter of a billion people each year. ...
Resource Consulting Services
VIEWPOINT: Why disrupting Congo's mineral trade won't solve the conflict
This blog was written by Harrison Mitchell and Nicholas Garrett, ...
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 ...
Savio Carvalho
Vulnerable in Haiti need climate adaptation costs covered
Can you imagine your country experiencing three hurricanes in one ...
Shannon Lawrence
Damming for development: Lessons from Laos
A Lao man, his face and hands hardened by the ...
Shujuan Lin
CHINA: AIDS campaigner sparks debate with condom gift to daughter
When hugely popular Chinese actor Pu Cunxin revealed to the ...
Sven Harmeling
Equal does not mean equitable
One of the tasks facing negotiators of a new climate ...
Teresa Rehman

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Thomson Reuters Foundation alumnus

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Transnational Institute, Amsterdam
Poppies and poverty in Afghanistan
Written by Martin Jelsma and Tom Kramer Nangarhar province in ...
Unnikrishnan PV
Rebuilding Kenya: Giving people a voice
Across Kenya, people are anxiously awaiting the outcome of mediation ...
World Vision
Milking for a shared future- flourishing co-existence in West Ramallah
By Lisa Abu Shanab, World Vision JWBG Cows moo softly ...
Yinka Otoki
NIGERIA: Former nurse battles HIV discrimination in the work place
Faced with the uphill task of trying to persuade Nigerian ...
A Myanmar expert
No homes in sight for 900,000 Myanmar cyclone survivors
BANGKOK - For about 100,000 people in Myanmar who have ...
A writer in Sri Lanka
Grief and despondency in Sri Lanka's camps
She stood in the door frame of a former clothing ...
Ada H. Ngoh

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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 - monsoon is just one challenge for displaced
The recent announcement by the UK government that it would ...
Amy Waddell
Water, a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
In Grand Gedeh County in Liberia, a day's health assessment ...
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
Colombia's ex-fighters and victims take first steps towards reconciliation
Sitting at one end of the conference panel was a ...
Anna Bifield
What's the cheapest way to deal with disasters?
"We had no idea that the cyclone was coming," says ...
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 ...
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
Super-typhoon causes fear and panic in Philippines
Celso Dulce is CARE's Project Representative in the Philippines, and ...
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 ...
Chris Northey
Rain and sadness in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar
It's raining every day now in Myanmar, very heavily; monsoon ...
Cluster Munition Coalition
VIDEO BLOG: Global talks to ban cluster bombs (day 4-5)
Five days into the international negotiations to ban cluster bombs, ...
Dan Smith
Climate change and conflict: respecting complexity
The climate deal won't happen at Copenhagen in December. The ...
David Darg
Homeless Italian quake survivors cling to destroyed village
Along the road linking the coastal city of Pescara to ...
ECHO
SLIDESHOW-ECHO visits Pakistan's IDPs
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Enough
Abyei: a harbinger for Sudan
By Colin Thomas-Jensen and Maggie Fick Reactions to today’s ruling ...
Farah Milhar

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Frank Nyakairu
Are resurgent Ugandan rebels backed by Khartoum?
Between 2004 and 2008, I made six visits to remote ...
Georgina Smith

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Glenna Gordon
Ill on the inside: AIDS in Uganda's prisons
The gate of Mityana Prison, an hour east of Kampala, ...
Graham Wood
Will the S. Korean kidnappings affect aid workers' safety?
The release of the South Korean hostages in Afghanistan is ...
Greg Barrow
$130m for Ronaldo? That's a lot of school meals
After news that Manchester United soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo will ...
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 ...
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 ...
Islamic Relief
Caught in the crossfire in Yemen
Ahmad Al Qubati is Islamic Relief's Project Coordinator in Saa'da, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Luciano Calestini

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Manal
Under blockade: Sewage on our doorstep in Gaza
It's hard to imagine that someone could be excited about ...
Margareta Wahlstrom
UN disaster risk chief answers your questions
In the run-up to the launch of an important U.N. ...
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
Malaria in Sao Tome and Principe
"The ox tail is the toughest bit to chew," says ...
Merlin
Liberia: is there a doctor in the county?
Amy Waddell is a communications intern for medical aid agency ...
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," ...
Minority Rights
Drought threatens women and girls in East Africa
Some months ago aid agencies began ringing alarm bells about ...
MSF in Asia
Nargis: A window to a wider health crisis
This blog is written by Jean-Sebastien Matte and Joe Belliveau, ...
Mustafa Qadri
Displaced Pakistanis speak out
* Mustafa Qadri (mustafaqadri.net) is the Middle East and South ...
Nino Gvianishvili
What about those who have nothing?
Before it closed down on October 23, I went to ...
Oxfam
I Will Not Give Up
By Bao Xiuhong I met Xiaojing, a 27-year-old T’ai ethnic ...
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 Biro
Camp below the cliffs, home for new Myanmar refugees
A gentle rain is falling as I visit Nuh Bo, ...
Peter Kessler
How will the asylum system treat climate refugees?
Given the significant changes that have recently been recorded in ...
Phoebe Kennedy
Myanmar's neglected HIV patients face a struggle to the death
YANGON - Htay Htay Thwe is one of the lucky ...
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, ...
Raphael Marambii
KENYA BLOG: "Peace feels good, I can tell you!"
I am glad to be the bearer of good news ...
Refugees International
Burma: Opening the Door
The dialogue is changing. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell ...
Roberta Rampton
Millions Fed: some solutions close at hand
More than a billion people go hungry each day - ...
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
VIDEO BLOG: One child's story of hunger in Kenya
Abdullahi is 14 and lives in Wajir, in north east ...
Sean Moorhouse
Explosives and plumbing in the middle of nowhere
Replete with too much sun, lots of sand and countless ...
She Le

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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 ...
The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI)
West Bank Bedouins say they are facing drought and discrimination
Rows of houses stand sentry on the parched, barren hill. ...
Toni Oyry
Iraqi refugees see little hope of returning home
For Ziad, an Iraqi Christian exiled in Lebanon, returning home ...
UNICEF
Meeting Southern Sudan's former 'child soldiers'
This blog is written by Pernille Ironside, a child protection ...
World Emergency Relief
On the run in Kenya: An orphan's story
"They cut my mother to pieces because of an election." ...
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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