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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  1. Sara Pantuliano

    A day to honor Syria’s humanitarian workers

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 19 August 2013
    Clad in crimson overalls, with a gleaming red crescent framed in white on their backs, the volunteers of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) hardly blend into the crowd. Yet despite being clearly marked as humanitarian workers, SARC volunteers continue to come under fire in one of the bloodiest civil wars ongoing today.

    On the 3rd of March 2013, SARC staff member Mohieddine Mahmoud died while on duty when heavy shelling wracked Jobar neighbourhood in the suburbs of Damascus.

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  2. Eva Svoboda

    World Humanitarian Day: counting the costs

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 18 August 2013

    Local aid worker deaths in the spotlight

    As humanitarian organisations venture further into the frontlines to deliver medical care, food and shelter, the cost of aid work has risen. These costs are not only financial – but human in nature. On World Humanitarian Day, August 19, we are reminded of the importance of the security and safety of humanitarian aid workers, both local and international.

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  3. Violence towards aid workers increasing

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 30 June 2013
    Delivering aid in the midst of conflict has always been dangerous and difficult work. Over the last few years, aid agencies have increased attention to the risks their staff and partners face in these contexts, including examining security, fiduciary, reputational and legal risks.

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  4. Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulance
    Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulance

    Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulance blocked at a checkpoint in Hebron, OPT.
    License: ODI given rights
    Credit: ICRC 2011
    Source: ICRC

    Getting where needed: overcoming aid access obstacles

    Event - Public event - 29 April 2013 14:00 - 16:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

    Knocking on the front door doesn't always get you in. That's been the hard lesson over decades for humanitarians seeking to bring assistance to those in need. This event will address the practical challenges organisations face in reaching those in need, and the strategies adopted to overcome them.

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  5. Paradoxes of presence: Risk management and aid culture in challenging environments

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 March 2013
    HPG Commissioned Reports
    Sarah Collinson and Mark Duffield with Carol Berger, Diana Felix da Costa and Karl Sandstrom
    This publication reflects on the increasing presence of humanitarian agencies in insecure environments and risk management – and the fundamental tension between ‘staying’ and ‘staying safe’. It argues for efforts to broaden and deepen the risk agenda beyond the immediate preoccupations of ostensibly manageable security risks, but which encompasses attention to the host of interconnected challenges and hazards involved.
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  7. Ashley Jackson

    For humanitarian workers, the Taliban is a key to access in Afghanistan

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 1 February 2013

    As international troops withdraw from Afghanistan, aid agencies will experience a titanic shift in their security infrastructure and be forced to reassess how they access those in need. Though the Taliban have a complex and predominantly hostile view of such agencies, those that wish to continue working in Afghanistan must learn to understand and negotiate with them. Yet, until now, little substantive research has been conducted on the Taliban to understand how to effectively engage with them.

    Key Conclusions

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  8. ICRC team at a Kabul checkpoint
    ICRC team at a Kabul checkpoint

    Afghanistan: An ICRC team at a Kabul checkpoint manned by one of the numerous armed groups active in the city in 1994
    License: ODI given rights
    Credit: © ICRC / Thierry Gassman
    Source: ICRC website

    The other side: humanitarian engagement with the Taliban in Afghanistan

    Event - Public event - 11 December 2012 11:00 - 12:30 (GMT+00)

    This event launches a new report into how aid agencies engage with the Taliban to gain access to Afghans in need of assistance. It offers a valuable and rare insight into how the Taliban view humanitarian and development assistance. The report draws on dozens of interviews with Taliban militia and leaders and conversely, investigates the approaches used by aid agencies to gain access to populations in Taliban-held territory.

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