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Red Cross Staff Kidnapped In Yemen

AP | FRANK JORDANS | Posted 01.23.2012

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GENEVA — Three Red Cross workers including a French national have been kidnapped while traveling in Yemen's restive south, officials said Wednes...

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Medics In War Zones Increasingly Under Attack

Posted 10.10.2011

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GENEVA (AP) -- Attacks on medics in war zones are becoming more frequent and drawing less outrage, despite being explicitly forbidden under internatio...

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300 Somali Children Left For Dead On Journey To Refugee Camp

AP | MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED | Posted 09.13.2011

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DADAAB, Kenya — Malnutrition stole most of Habibo's eyesight and left the 1-year-old close to death. Medical personnel tried to pump life back i...

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Haitian Hospitals Awash With Supplies, Struggle to Pay Staff (Part 2)

Sarah Ryley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sarah Ryley

Organizations seem unwilling to donate the one thing Haitian hospitals say they desperately need: Money that can be spent at their discretion, for things like salaries, fuel for the generator, and oxygen.

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AP | FRANK JORDANS | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jump Starting the First Amendment

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

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In February, 2009, the Pentagon allowed the International Red Cross to photograph detainees at Guantanamo Bay for the first time. They had been barred from doing so for eight years prior to that.

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James Harrison: Australian Man With Special Blood Type Saves 2 Million Babies

Posted 05.25.2011

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When Australian man James Harrison was just 14 years old, he received a life-saving blood transfusion during an invasive chest surgery. Grateful for t...

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Aid Agencies In Chile Say Much More Help Is Needed

Posted 05.25.2011

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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has revised its appeal for emergency aid in Chile, asking for a further $13 milli...

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U.N. Ambassador Kohona: Sri Lanka Refugee Situation Improving

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fourteen years after the civil war in Rwanda, refugees are still living in mud huts.  In Bosnia, following Balkanization, people lacked heat and ...

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In Sri Lanka: A Look at the Refugee Camp

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Sri Lankan government has moved mountains to accommodate more than a quarter million displaced people since the war ended ten days ago. But they have many more to move.

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In Sri Lanka: A U.S. Congressman Gets It

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Congressman Heath Shuler's visit was the first time I have heard an American elected official seem to understand what has transpired here in Sri Lanka.

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Obama Asks Tamil Tigers To Surrender, Sri Lanka To Mind Civilians

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama, speaking this afternoon, made a direct statement to both the Tamil Tigers as well as the Sri Lankan government regarding the enduring...

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Sri Lanka-Tamil Tigers Conflict Root Causes Explored (AUDIO)(VIDEO)

WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.25.2011

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* Scroll down for video and audio. The Red Cross is warning of a catastrophe as the Sri Lankan government launches a "final" assault against the r...

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Israel's Use Of White Phosphorus Not Illegal: Red Cross

AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 05.25.2011

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GENEVA — The international Red Cross said Tuesday that Israel has fired white phosphorus shells in its offensive in the Gaza Strip, but has no e...

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