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Action Against Hunger team deliver hygiene kits to Iraqi refugees

Opinion: Aid workers get a bad rap – but too often they’re thrown in at the deep end

21 Mar 2017

The media are quick to criticise humanitarian organisations as inefficient and expensive, writes Corinna Frey (Cambridge Judge Business School), in...

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Syrian refugee in a hospital in Lebanon

Targeting of Syrian healthcare as ‘weapon of war’ sets dangerous precedent, say researchers

15 Mar 2017

As new estimates of death toll for health workers are published, experts say the deliberate and systematic attacks on the healthcare infrastructure...

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Adolescent girls are the biggest victims in conflict settings

Opinion: Rape, murder, forced marriage: what girls in conflict zones get instead of education

20 May 2016

Pauline Rose (Faculty of Education) discusses the importance of recognising education as part of a humanitarian response.

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Lebanese Town Opens its Doors to Newly Arrived Syrian Refugees

Syrian aid: lack of evidence for ‘interventions that work’, say researchers

04 Feb 2016

The lack of an evidence base in the donor-funded response to Syrian migrant crisis means funds may be allocated to ineffective interventions, say...

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UN Peacekeepers Distribute Water and Food in Haiti

We ask the experts: is overseas aid working?

16 Aug 2013

We live in an unequal world: each year billions of dollars are directed at reducing some of the gaps between rich and poor, and bringing basic...

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Rice sacks

Give and take: the changing landscape of world aid

05 Oct 2012

A book by Cambridge University geographer Dr Emma Mawdsley provides a major analysis of the ways in which the ‘rising powers’ of the BRICS and others...

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