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Japan's tsunami: Impressions of a city that 'stood no chance'
Posted by Shinko Tana on May 10th, 2011
Driving along the Japanese coast, you immediately see the scope of the destruction that followed the earthquake and the tsunami. It's far greater than pictures can convey. Amazingly, some houses are still standing, but as you get closer you can see that only their exterior walls are left -- the rooms inside were completely washed away. more »
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Mothers' Stories: Lay Htoo, Thailand
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 8th, 2011
Happy Mother's Day! Over the past week we've been sharing some of our favorite stories about mothers. Today -- Lay Htoo and her newborn at the Tham Hin refugee camp, near the Thailand-Myanmar border. more »
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Pakistan’s tent city, where residents remain torn about returning home
Posted by Ned Colt on May 3rd, 2011
From my perch atop a twenty foot high clay mound, I am surrounded by a sea of dusty white. I’m looking out over the close to thirty thousand tents that comprise the Jalozai IDP Camp outside of Peshawar. For those of you unfamiliar with refugee acronyms, IDP stands for “internally displaced person.” There are an estimated seventy thousand of them at Jalozai. more »
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Photo Share: Playing cricket in Pakistan
Posted by Peter.Biro on March 11th, 2011
With the Cricket World Cup 2011 in full swing, children are playing the game everywhere in Pakistan. I took this photo of a girl wielding a bat during a lunch break at one of the schools run by the IRC in the Jalozai camp near the city of Peshawar. more »
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Quoted: Military-led aid projects doomed to fail in Afghanistan
Posted by The.IRC on January 28th, 2011
Commenting on a Washington Post story, the IRC’s Michael Kocher writes in a letter to the editor,"Military-led projects erode established humanitarian principles of impartiality and independence, fail to win hearts and minds and -- we now know -- are ineffective." more »
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Quoted: “We can’t get back all that we lost"
Posted by The.IRC on December 7th, 2010
“We can’t get back all that we lost. But these seeds and the crops that will grow from them will help us recover from the floods. I thank the IRC for this assistance.” - Obaid Ullah, one of 3,500 farmers the IRC is assisting in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province more »
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Photo Share: Shenaz and her baby
Posted by The.IRC on December 2nd, 2010
Shenaz is 23 years old and has three children. Her baby was just eight days old when the floods hit. Shenaz fled with her family, holding the newborn and wading through waters that rose waist-high. Now the family has returned to their village to find even more suffering. more »
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Thailand: Midwives saving lives
Posted by Peter.Biro on November 22nd, 2010
I recently spent a day with Tanaw, one of 15 IRC-trained midwives in Tham Hin, a patchwork of bamboo huts housing nearly 8,000 Burmese refugees on the Thailand-Myanmar border. more »
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Quoted: Afghanistan aid worker dangers
Posted by The.IRC on October 21st, 2010
Bob Kitchen, the IRC's country director in Afghanistan, spoke with CNN about the increasing challenges and dangers of providing humanitarian aid there. more »
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Noted: Women, war & peace in Afghanistan
Posted by The.IRC on October 19th, 2010
Author, activist, photographer and IRC volunteer Ann Jones is interviewed about her recently published book “War Is Not Over When It’s Over: Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War,” which is based on Jones’ work with the IRC’s gender-based violence unit. more »
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