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Nursing Southern Somalia Through Civil War And Famine

Tommy Standun | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Johnson and Johnson, Civil War, Mogadishu, World Health Organization, Tommy Standun, Sos Children's Villages International, Famine, IDP Camps, Africa, Idp, Sos Children's Village, Somalia, Development, Bblog-Globalmotherhood, Community Health, Global Motherhood, Impact News
Tommy Standun

Many organizations have been driven from the country by insecurity, and the provision of supplies is severely restricted as roads are often closed by various militia and military forces. But there is hope as Somali citizens provide assistance to their own.

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Smoke and Mirrors: Deflecting Attention Away From Failure in Haiti's IDP Camps

Mark Schuller | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Wilson Jeudy, Haiti Earthquake, IDP Camps, Forced Evictions, Idps, Internally Displaced Persons, Media, Blame the Victim, Haiti, Usaid, World News
Mark Schuller

In many senses the lack of progress following Haiti's earthquake centers on housing.

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Inactions Speaking Louder than Words: Hurricane Emily's Near-Miss Too Close for Haiti's IDPs

Mark Schuller | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Right to Housing, Minustah, Hurricane Emily, Iom, Red Cross, Idps, IDP Camps, United Nations, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Forced Evictions, World News
Mark Schuller

Late this afternoon, Emily was downgraded as it made its way north, away from the country. This time around, the hundreds of thousands of IDPs were lucky. But what about the next hurricane?

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Haiti One Year Later: Light at the End of the Tunnel or Oncoming Train?

Mark Schuller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Cholera, Displacement, Ngos, Haiti, International Organization for Migration, Haiti Elections, IDP Camps, International Aid, Haiti One Year Earthquake Anniversary, World News
Mark Schuller

This summer I conducted a study of a random sample of over 100 camps in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. How much progress has been made since August? In short: almost none.

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60,000 Somalis Flee Fighting

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Somalia Violence, IDPs Somalia, Internally Displaced Persons, Somalia, Somalia War, Somalia Refugees, IDP Camps, World News

GENEVA — Sixty-thousand civilians in Somalia have fled their homes over the past week as fresh fighting between Islamist insurgents and a govern...

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Unstable Foundations: Human Rights of Haiti's 1.5 Million IDPs

Mark Schuller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Idp, Usaid, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Ngos, Haiti Earthquake, IDP Camps, Haiti, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, World News
Mark Schuller

Haiti's 1.5 million homeless have once again become invisible. Because they are not seen or heard in mainstream media, most people assume things are improving, the problem solved. Unfortunately they are wrong.

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Rained Out? Opportunities in Haiti Washing Away

Mark Schuller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake Relief, Haiti Reconstruction, Camp-Corail, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti's Elections, IDP Camps, Paul Collier, World News
Mark Schuller

In addition to the rain, thousands are fighting for the right guaranteed by the United Nations and Haitian constitution to sleep on concrete blocks, in wet, muddy, ripping tents.

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Voices From Haiti: "Stop Feeding on Haiti's Suffering"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake Relief, Weather, Media, Beryl Markham, Olympus Camera, Families, Creative Writing, Haitiblog, Disaster, Haiti, Port-Au-Prince, Despair, IDP Camps, Hopital De L'Universite D'Etat D'Haiti, Fear, Disease, Hunger, Displaced Persons, Rain, Truth, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

One of two Pediatric tents we visited There is a sign in a damaged Petionville, Haiti bar that reads: "There are no truths, there are only stories....

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Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugee Camps, Childrens Health, Haiti Earthquake, Port-Au-Prince Earthquake, IDP Camps, Haiti, World News
Crossover Dreams

Peter Costantini ~ Pétionville, Haiti Next to where we were building a new platform for a hospital tent in the Pétionville Club camp for ...

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Haiti: Diarrhea Threatens Infants and "We Are in Reaction Mode Instead of Planning Mode"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marbug Virus, Haven, Ebola, Reuters, Sanitation, Tiffany Keenan, Haiti Earthquake, Port-Au-Prince, Morality, Baby Food Scandal, Infant Mortality, Poverty, Homeland Security, H1n1, IDP Camps, Pit Toilets, Congress, Haiti, Biosurveillance, Testimony, Dr. Jim Wilson, Haitiblog, Petionville, Care, Diarrhea, Ngos, Twitter, Sars, Media Lies, Haiti Aid, Geochat, Argus, United Nations Haiti, Social Networking, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

Hand washing is non-existent and raw sewage is flowing throughout the camps. Walk anywhere with peril. Human feces are everywhere, even in the ruins of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Port-au-Prince.

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UN Reports Diphtheria Outbreak in Port-au-Prince: IDP Camps Vulnerable

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Port-Au-Prince, Haitiblog, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Hope, Haiti-International-Medical-Corps, Diphtheria, IDP Camps, United Nations, Who, Hurricane Katrina, Potemkin Village, Rape, Reuters, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, World News, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

Camp Canaan While in Haiti, we notified a health monitoring service about suspected outbreaks of up to 100 cases of diptheria in Camp Cannan, twel...

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Voices from Haiti: "Americans Can See Exactly the Way We Live"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haitiblog, Haiti Earthquake, Hope, IDP Camps, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Hurricane Katrina, Potemkin Village, Haiti-International-Medical-Corps, Rape, Reuters, Haiti, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

Writing about the shattered hopes and dreams of the Haitian people is like trying to describe the movements of a symphony to a hearing-impaired person.

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Misery, Fear, Loss, and Confusion in Haiti Four Months After the Quake

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rain, Hunger, Displaced Persons, Disaster, Port-Au-Prince, Weather, Haiti, Fear, Despair, Writing, IDP Camps, Media, Writers? Block, Disease, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Families, Truth, Michelle Obama, Haitiblog, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

This is my second trip to Haiti after the January 12 earthquake that killed up to 300,000 people and left 1.2 million homeless, although neither of ...

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Northern Uganda: The Biggest Forgotten Humanitarian Crisis

Melissa Fitzgerald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Donate, Melissa Fitzgerald, IDP Camps, Lra, Voices of Uganda, Theater, Documentary, International Medical Corps, Northern Uganda, Impact News
Melissa Fitzgerald

As I was leaving an IDP camp, a man said to me, "Please don't let us die in this horrible place. Please tell the people in America what is happening here." I promised myself I would.

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Congo: Time to Send in the Clowns?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clowns Without Borders, Rape, Radio Maendeleo, Delphie Namuto, United Nations, Jolly Kamuntu, Goma, Joseph Kabila, IDP Camps, Radio Okapi, Unhcr, North Kivu, Doctors Without Borders, Caddy Adzuba, Georgianne Nienaber, DRC Violence, Hillary Clinton, State Department, Refugees, Jane Trahey, Reporters Without Borders, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Committee to Protect Journalists, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

Congolese president Joseph Kabila paved the way for a troupe of Spanish Clowns, while thugs and militia rule the Kivus and truth-seeking journalist are threatened.

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Congo: Midwives Transform Trash Into Hope

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rape, Democratic Republic of Congo, Humanitarian, Drc, Mountain Gorilla, Midwives, Grassroots, Conflict Zone, War, United Nations, Georgianne Nienaber, Congo, Secretray of State, Clinic, Wise Women, Virunga Park, Aprosaf, IDP Camps, Womens Issues, Homeless, Community Organizing, Hillary Clinton, Charcoal, Emmanuel De Merode, Refugees, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

Since Secretary Clinton ended her African trip, the news cycle has seemingly abandoned the women of Congo.

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