A vegetable farmer with his watering cans in Ghana's Upper West Region, which has suffered failed rains and rising temperatures.
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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.
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Cambodian refugee with her child at the Ban Mai Rut refugee camp near Klong Yai, Thailand.
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A major conference about the history of humanitarianism in East and Southeast Asia will take place at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies on 29-30 January 2013. It will bring together diplomats, ministers, senior figures from the humanitarian sector and academics to explore a range of historical aspects of Asian humanitarianism.
SLRC's Nepal Lead, Bishnu Upreti and Rachel Slater, SLRC Research Director look at how are people’s attitudes towards government are affected when accessing services in two countries simultaneously. After travelling to Ilam District in the far east of Nepal SLRC researchers found that the lack of health services in the district meant that people were crossing the border to go to clinics and hospitals in India.
