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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

̽»¨Ö±²¥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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Lebanese Town Opens its Doors to Newly Arrived Syrian Refugees

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

04 Feb 2016

̽»¨Ö±²¥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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