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An internally displaced man gets a medical checkup at a mobile clinic set-up by the Afghan Red Crescent close to Herat (Jan 2014).

Challenges around aid access in Afghanistan

9 September 2014
Few issues get more attention nowadays in Afghanistan’s aid circles than insecurity-engendered restrictions on humanitarian access. “In almost every district where security has been handed over from ISAF [NATO-led International Security Assistance Force] to Afghan security forces we’ve seen an...

  • Feature

    Displaced families from Ghor and Badghis provinces share temporary shelters on the outskirts of Herat

    Afghan IDPs have no plans to return

    20 February 2014
    Afghanistan’s new government policy on internally displaced persons (IDPs), launched last week in Kabul, was welcomed by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) as a way...

  • Analysis

    Survivors pass through their devastated village in the southern town of New Bataan, Mindanao, following Typhoon Bopha, which destroyed entire tracts of farms in December 2012

    Changing the mindset on DRR

    9 May 2013
    Investing in preparation for potential disasters is a “no brainer”, Elizabeth Longworth, director of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), told a recent...

  • News

    Flash floods in different parts of Egypt caused extensive damage to homes

    DRR in the Arab world

    20 March 2013
    Nearly 300 government officials, scientists, aid workers and activists from across the Arab world are working together in Jordan to draw up the first joint...

  • Analysis

    Egyptians fetching water. Water scarcity has already become a fact of daily life for Egyptians

    Water woes in the Arab world

    5 March 2013
    Read this article in: Français - Arabic Export oil, import water – the Middle East’s risky economics By John James Photo: Amr Emam/IRIN Egyptian water...
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