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The Israeli military has denied using white phosphorus during the assault on Gaza, but aid agencies say they have no doubt it has been used.

This may be a sad reflection on the modern world, but it also provides aid agencies with a rare opportunity to help those in need.

Many of the children are sick, and the families have had no contact with any aid agencies.

Aid agencies also say Burma may need food assistance for at least a year to support communities devastated by Cyclone Nargis.

It has also become a hub for western diplomats, businessmen, aid agencies and military people going in and out of Iraq.

Aid agencies already fear that this will undo decades of development efforts in poor parts of the world.

The U. N. aid agencies say the aim of these visits is to identify possible gaps in their humanitarian operations.

And, he notes international and private aid agencies are lining up to provide assistance to the displaced.

Many have expressed dismay at the ICC's decision and yet said nothing about the expulsion of the aid agencies.

While aid agencies are lining up to help, the lack of security is making it too difficult for them to distribute food.

In light of these findings, Edwards says the UNHCR and other aid agencies are planning to increase food distribution points in the camps.

Emergency aid operations certainly saved thousands, but all the aid agencies and all the money pledged cannot put Haiti together again.

this, UN aid agencies are starting to consider appropriate assistance to help earthquake victims rebuild their houses, Richards added.

Fresh Pressure remains on Burmese military to allow the International aid agencies drive greater an access to the region to help survivors.

McCully said his government would work with aid agencies to try to figure out a long-term response to the situation.

The cost of rice has risen up to 50 percent on world markets, raising concerns among aid agencies in Asia.

International aid agencies have warned of a second wave of deaths due to deadly waterborne diseases.

But medical care was improving, and the United Nations, American troops and aid agencies were working to set up a supply chain.

Pressure remains on Burma's military to allow international aid agencies greater access to the region to help survivors.

Perior said aid agencies expect to put five more into service by mid-week and that each one will be critical for the relief effort.

Aid agencies continued to express concern about the safety of as many as 150, 000 civilians prevented from leaving by the Tigers.

They said aid agencies are able to access more areas in southern Somalia and that aid is reaching people in need, but more must be done.

The statement on the ruling party's website said this was to allow aid agencies into the area.

Names of enterprises which sell to international aid agencies can be found on the rosters of pre-qualified companies of individual agencies.

Most international aid agencies in Iraq consider pulling out following the kidnapping of two Italian humanitarian workers.

More radically, aid recipients could even be given aid "vouchers" redeemable for services provided by a range of charities and aid agencies.

bring someone to book He was released after pressure had been brought to bear by the aid agencies.

Aid agencies and major world bodies are to meet to to seek ways of encouraging trade by emerging nations during the economic downturn.

South Sudan's jerry-built towns are dominated by aid agencies, whose people often complain about the lack of a private sector.

Aid agencies have also used weather derivatives to help poor countries cope with drought.

The survey was conducted by four British aid agencies who went into the camps around Goma.

The country is experiencing its worst food shortages since the famine of the late 1990s, international aid agencies say.

The United Nations says aid agencies have managed to reach 1. 3 million victims in the worst hit parts of the Irrawaddy Delta.

All the big humanitarian aid agencies, plus thousands of small ones, piled in.

Other important buyers are international aid agencies, United Nations specialized agencies and international NGOs.

The expulsion covered only the food aid program, not the private aid agencies themselves, Majarowitz added.

But, UN aid agencies note these statistics are several days old and the true number of deaths and hospitalizations are probably higher.

United Nations aid agencies are working furiously to try to provide food and other essential relief to drought victims in Somalia.

Aid agencies are warning that the spreading unrest and clashes with authorities are preventing delivery of key supplies to hard-hit areas.

However, says Wang, few Chinese aid programmes involve local organisations and experienced international aid agencies.

Aid agencies report an increase in food prices is pushing many moderately poor families over the edge.

Aid agencies say a new crop of rice needs to be planted within weeks to avoid a prolonged food crisis.

The regime in Pyongyang provides a big test case for aid agencies of any ideological persuasion.

The United Nations and international aid agencies are ramping up their assistance to earthquake victims in Haiti.

United Nations aid agencies are due to meet in Geneva on Monday to plan humanitarian relief for the country.

But, aid agencies agree these peace initiatives ultimately will lead nowhere without cooperation from the Sudanese government.

These three factors are pushing aid agencies to devise strategies that support broad-based cost-effective development objectives.

Heavily populated Port-au-Prince suffered enormous damage and aid agencies have been struggling for the past week to reach the victims.

Topics range from the role aid agencies play in supporting this process, to the opportunities and hurdles facing policymakers on the ground.

It has, after all, kept reporters and most aid agencies away from the battlefront.

He urged international and local aid agencies to help the government to frame a coordinated medical rehabilitation policy.

Some bilateral aid agencies also stand out, but national aid schemes are generally fragmented, inefficient and far more politicised.

Aid agencies say the priority now is providing winterized tents for the thousands of people left without homes.

Help has started to trickle in after the Shabab, an Islamist militia, lifted its ban on aid agencies that it once termed anti-Muslim.

Much of the rest of the country is suffering a severe food shortage, say aid agencies.

And aid agencies are reorganising themselves around the technology.

A new report by a consortium of British aid agencies says the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is the worst in forty years.

Next, the provinces around Kabul should be cleared of the Taliban, so aid agencies can operate.

A different but equally pressing problem is the flood of ill-advised donations that aid agencies already are facing, organizers said.

Aid agencies have joined forces with mobile-telecoms providers to mount a campaign of text-message information sent to camp residents.

United Nations aid agencies report measles is continuing to spread at an alarming rate throughout drought-stricken Horn of Africa.

However, this is still well below the 6. 5m people it was feeding before 2006, when Kim Jong-il's regime clamped down on aid agencies.

While welcoming outside assistance, Burma's military rulers have told aid agencies that relief workers will still need visas.

The rapid influx of well-meaning aid agencies that now throng the dusty remnants of Port-au-Prince has contributed to the confusion.

Aid agencies agree the speed and scale of this crisis is posing huge challenges for everyone.

Officially, China has intensified efforts to combat cross-border trafficking, but aid agencies say the problem is growing.

Aid agencies are also using technology to meet the victims' other key demand: contact with relatives.

Aid agencies fear that thousands more civilian deaths and displacements could occur if the operation goes ahead.

Dollars lost to corruption, and projects gone awry, spurred the growth of aid agencies into bureaucratic behemoths.

United Nations aid agencies say millions of survivors of Haiti's catastrophic earthquake are in urgent need of tents and food.

Their welfare is largely left to a handful of aid agencies that can help only a tiny minority.

One, the physical infrastructure, was relatively easy with the help of aid agencies and development banks.

s poor once again. And sure enough, the aid agencies, civil society movements and environmental groups all took the bait.

Aid agencies and governments found the argument unconvincing, even distasteful, and pressed on.

Aid agencies have warned of a humanitarian crisis in the city.

But it is falling apart, and foreign-aid agencies are only really interested in helping alleviate poverty.

Banerjee argues that there is a solution: aid agencies should copy medical researchers and run randomised trials.

The group has tightly controlled the delivery of aid to famine victims and has banned access for many Western aid agencies altogether.

Aid agencies are digging new wells and installing pumps; the inhabitants hope to cultivate their fields again.

At the centers, families usually share a meal of rice, noodles, and canned goods provided by aid agencies.

United Nations aid agencies have begun the first of three interagency missions to areas affected by violence in Kenya this week.

Aid agencies warned that, without emergency food and shelter, millions of citizens could perish.

Aid agencies have complained of a mounting humanitarian crisis for the 1. 5 million Palestinians in Gaza.

Aid agencies say rising insecurity in Afghanistan is hampering efforts to provide relief.

A large majority of the victims were national staff, recruited locally by NGOs or official aid agencies.

Several important trends are shaping the way international aid agencies operate procurement.

Haitian and international aid agencies are remaining on high alert to prevent the disease from spreading into new areas of the country.

It has given $27 million in grants to aid agencies and plant scientists fighting the disease.

The authors encourage aid agencies to provide more resources and help reduce the impact of noncommunicable chronic diseases.

The group's hardline elements oppose the presence of most western aid agencies in areas under their control.

Speaking from Islamabad, U. N. officials say aid agencies are facing a disaster of major proportions.

The international aid agencies have quality concerns similar to most buyers in the private sector.

Some still maintain a presence in the more peaceful parts and also provide assistance through local aid agencies.

She says UNICEF and other aid agencies have very little cash in which to take care of the basic needs of the millions of drought victims.

Aid agencies will reinforce systems to warn people of impending floods and landslides.

Aid agencies, however, say that more than a short-term cash injection is needed.

With more people living in poverty, aid agencies find their resources stretched thin.

Including foreign aid agencies in the world network conditions of service in the tourist destination status.

The Haitian government is as good as absent from people's lives in Deomoun, and foreign aid agencies rarely show up.

It received withering criticism from aid agencies and diplomats.

The remaining aid agencies have been put on notice, and could be next.

But aid agencies are still the best hope for ordinary Angolans.

Some foreign aid agencies have existing networks in the country. But none has a nationwide reach.

Aid agencies were cautiously optimistic.

And we have been more persistent than official aid agencies, maintaining a presence long after they have moved on.

The Shabab has banned food aid in most of southern Somalia since 2009, branding Western aid agencies anti-Muslim.

Aid agencies estimate that 3. 7m people in Somalia and millions of others in Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya are close to starvation.

It's not yet clear whether al-Shabab's withdrawal from Mogadishu will make it any easier for aid agencies to reach victims of the drought.

AFTER the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, aid agencies clubbed together to review their efforts.

Because of the prevailing insecurity, most aid agencies have left the country.

Kerry stressed that a partial return of international aid agencies is not enough.

They will send it to the aid agencies on the ground and then they will spend it right there for what is most needed.

Could aid agencies be made to compete?

About 3. 5 million Afghans have returned home since 2002 from Pakistan with the assistance of aid agencies, the United Nations said.

Malnutrition rates in some areas are five times more severe than the threshold aid agencies use to define a crisis.

The U. N. and other aid agencies say nearly 5. 5 million people in eastern Congo have died, mostly from war-related hunger and disease.

Aid agencies say they are unable to bring essential relief supplies to the people.

But, aid agencies say the impact is greatest in Somalia.

This is forcing aid agencies to devise strategies to make shrinking budgets meet growing demands.

Aid agencies and other NGOs are subject to different laws again.

Aid agencies say it is too soon to know how many people were killed and injured. But, they say it is sure to be in the tens of thousands.

Aid agencies say the violence has displaced 400, 000 people, including 100, 000 who fled across the border into Uzbekistan.

Foreign-aid agencies provide more and better-paid jobs, especially for the well educated, than do local firms or the state.

But the biggest problem is too many aid agencies, and the challenge is co- ordinating them.

One possible solution is to let developing countries write their own development and adaptation plans in consultation with aid agencies.

And it may all happen sooner than aid agencies expect.

The ban was lifted last month, but aid agencies say it takes time to gear up.

WFP and other aid agencies are using the food distribution center for the loss of their homes in the conflict to provide food for people.

Until now, international aid agencies have filled the void while the government has focused on disposing of the dead.

An increasing number of aid agencies and charitable foundations, for example, now sponsor projects and programmes in this field.

Rent aid may just push up prices, especially since landlords know that aid agencies are paying.

A famine from 1995 to 1997 killed two million to three million North Koreans, aid agencies estimate, and sowed distrust in the government.

In this respect, the ECOSOC and other development aid agencies should have an important role to play in the Commission.

In the world of aid agencies, this notion has been hotly contested.

In the longer term, international aid agencies have called for more money to support food production in developing countries.

Large chunks of its language could have been issued by bleeding-heart aid agencies or the United Nations

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