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Urgent action needed to protect vulnerable women, children and adolescents
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] April 27 (ANI/PNN): Women, children and adolescents, and the health and aid workers who provide their care and support, are facing growing challenges and life-threatening risks in these times of escalating conflict and humanitarian crises worldwide, according to a commentar
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Taliban bars women from operating as aid workers in Afghanistan: Human Rig
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], November 6 (ANI): Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that the Taliban has prohibited Afghan women from "operating as aid workers," which is preventing the desperately needed lifesaving aid from reaching Afghans, reported a local media.
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WHO apologises to victims of sexual abuse during Ebola outbreak in DR Cong
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 28 (ANI): The Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday apologised to the victims and survivors of the sexual exploitation in DR Congo by aid workers.
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Three employees of international medical charity killed in Ethiopia's Tigr
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Nairobi [Kenya], June 26 (ANI): Three employees of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), an international humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation of French origin, were killed in Ethiopia's war-torn northern Tigray region on Friday, confirmed the organisation in a statement.
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Gunmen kill 6 French nationals in Niger
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Niamey [Niger], Aug 10 (ANI): Gunmen killed six French aid workers, a Nigerian guide, and a driver in a wildlife park on Sunday, informed officials.
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Ghazni unsafe for aid workers: UN
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Ghazni [Afghanistan], August 18 (ANI): The United Nations (UN) has announced that the city of Ghazni is highly unsafe for aid workers since Improvised Explosion Devices (IED) and mines are scattered on the way following the Taliban attack earlier this week.
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Six Afghan Red Cross workers killed by suspected IS gunmen
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [U.K.], Feb. 9(ANI): Six Afghan Red Cross aid workers have been killed in an ambush in the country's north by a suspected Islamic state gunmen, while travelling to a remote area to deliver humanitarian aid.
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Thousands of refugees stuck at Jordan border face risk of epidemics
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [U.K.], Sept. 4 (ANI): Aid workers have warned that tens of thousands of "ghost" refugees, who have been trapped in the desert along Jordan's border with Syria for more than two months, are at a risk of epidemics.
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French charity urges Lankan govt. to take action over its aid workers kill
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo, Aug. 5 (ANI): Action Contre la Faim (ACF) or the Action against Hunger, a Paris-based aid organisation, has urged Sri Lanka to take action over the killing of its 17 aids workers during the conflict in Sri Lanka a decade ago.
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Human Rights Watch urges Sri Lanka for justice to killed ACF aid workers
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York, Aug. 1 (ANI): New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Sri Lankan Government to mete out justice in the killing of 17 aid workers of French charity, Action Against Hunger (ACF).
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