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   Piggy banks and unequal partners: Non-Western powers in humanitarian action

   11 February 2013 15:48 GMT | Comments (0)

   Andras Horvath, GPPi | AlertNet AidWatch

   Is Syria an example of the new world of humanitarian aid where the West is no longer the only relevant player?
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   Bill Gates, polio vaccines and sterilisation myths – why do they persist?

   11 February 2013 14:53 GMT | Comments (0)

   Emma Batha | AlertNet News Blog

   Global campaigners link vaccinations to reducing population growth but are their words being misinterpreted?
3. 

   Researchers warn of more wild fires as Peruvians migrate to the big city

   11 February 2013 05:17 GMT | Comments (0)

   Andrea Booth | Climate Conversations

   Wild fires in the Amazon are being exacerbated by a population shift: farmers moving to cities leave behind uncultivated ...
4. 

   Jordan: “I am a volunteer and a refugee”

   10 February 2013 07:18 GMT | Comments (1)

   CARE International | Aid Worker Diaries

   The story of Khalil, a Syrian refugee and volunteer working for CARE
5. 

   Jordan: CARE presses for greater support for Syrian refugees living in urban centers

   10 February 2013 06:41 GMT | Comments (0)

   CARE International | AlertNet News Blog

   Record influx of refugees in January/ Two years after the conflict started needs are increasing
6. 

   Do earthworms contribute to climate change?

   08 February 2013 14:30 GMT | Comments (0)

   Neil Palmer | Climate Conversations

   Study opens a can of, well, you know what
7. 

   Small businesses band together to meet high cost of Indonesia’s timber certification scheme

   06 February 2013 21:48 GMT | Comments (0)

   Melati Kaye | Climate Conversations

   Next month, the Indonesian government will fully phase in legislation requiring all furniture companies exporting to Europe ...
8. 

   Mali: let’s not forget those who have suffered the most, and seen the worst

   05 February 2013 13:28 GMT | Comments (0)

   CARE International | Africa Views
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   Is financing sustainable forest management an inappropriate use of public funding?

   04 February 2013 22:36 GMT | Comments (1)

   Robert Nasi | Climate Conversations

   The long-running debate about how best to conserve forests and improve livelihoods in forest-rich tropical countries has ...
10. 

    The young girls and boys of Mali

    04 February 2013 16:57 GMT | Comments (0)

    Maria Mutya Frio, World Vision | Aid Worker Diaries

    Traveling through Mali, I hear the stories of the lost girls and boys, stuck in conflict, who should be in schools and not in...

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