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Sunday 14 March 2010

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Straight talk with Global Fund director Michel Kazatchkine - 12 March 2010
		The executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Michel Kazatchkine, sat down with IRIN/PlusNews at the launch of the organization's 2010 report, where he answered some hard questions on what may be a turning point in HIV/AIDS funding.
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Interview with top government official on IDP camps, returns - 11 November 2009
		One of the more contentious issues in Sri Lanka this year has been the plight of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the north.
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Twenty cities most vulnerable to storm surges, sea level rises - 1 October 2009
		According to (yet another) new climate change report, this time from development think-tank CGD, these are the 20 cities where the most people will be at the greatest risk from sea level rise and storm surges in the developing world.
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Children need more support in Gaza - UNICEF head - 9 March 2009
		UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Ann M. Veneman recently paid a visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory to assess the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with special focus on children. As of 5 February, 431 Palestinian children had died and 1,872 had been wounded in the 22-day Israeli offensive which ended on 18 January, according to the Gaza health ministry.
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“We are not moving as fast as I would like” - 16 February 2009
		President Ismail Omar Guelleh leads a resource-poor country struggling with energy and food shortages. In an interview with IRIN, he explained how these and other pressing issues are being dealt with.
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“The Somali people do not want any more fighting" - 12 February 2009
		Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed was recently elected President of Somalia at a parliamentary meeting in Djibouti. Before returning to Mogadishu where he will appoint a prime minister and form a government, Ahmed talked to IRIN about the challenges ahead.
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World conference of humanitarian studies - 5 February 2009
		Academics, humanitarian analysts, practitioners and students are gathered in the Netherlands this week at the first conference of its kind. The World Conference of Humanitarian Studies is hosted by the University of Groningen and features over 60 panels and dozens of papers on a very broad range of humanitarian topics.
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Nine killed as hospital shelled - ICRC - 2 February 2009
		A hospital in an area of heavy fighting between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was hit by shell fire on 1 February, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said.
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“Today is a better day than yesterday,” John Ging, UNRWA chief in Gaza - 18 January 2009
		UNRWA is the lead UN agency working for Palestinian refugees. Its compound and schools, sheltering displaced Gazans, have come under Israeli attack during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, which began on 27 December with aerial bombardments and was combined with a ground assault on 3 January ending on the 18th. John Ging, head of UNRWA in Gaza, spoke with IRIN by phone.
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New “business model” for humanitarian aid – top UN official - 10 November 2008
		John Holmes, UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, has been in Dubai attending the inaugural Summit on the Global Agenda held by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF) in partnership with the government of Dubai (7-9 November).
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