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NGOs suffer under intifada conditions
The Jebel Ali port and free trade zone in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates has plans to become a key regional humanitarian hub for U.N. agencies and NGOs in the Gulf. With a war in Iraq looming, the port authority believes it can play a vital role as a centre of supply and logistics. Nick Cater reports from the Aid and Trade fair in Geneva.

Port bids to be humanitarian hub for Gulf
The Jebel Ali port and free trade zone in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates has plans to become a key regional humanitarian hub for U.N. agencies and NGOs in the Gulf. With a war in Iraq looming, the port authority believes it can play a vital role as a centre of supply and logistics. Nick Cater reports from the Aid and Trade fair in Geneva.

Features

12 May 2003
Quake survivors turn temporary shelters into homes
Berna Baradan, a postgraduate architecture student, studied temporary shelter provision after an earthquake struck her home town of Izmir in August 1999. She says authorities wasted money and failed to tackle the problem of long-term housing. Residents improved the shelters to make them more like homes, making them unsuitable for re-use in the future.

08 Apr 2003
Map of northern Iraq
Our graphic shows the main cities of northern Iraq.

05 Feb 2003
Money and morality make odd expo partners
Trying to gather the humanitarian world and its friends under one roof inevitably means that the Aid and Trade expo and conference resembled a cross between a street market and a political meeting, reports Nick Cater. In his final piece from Geneva, he sums up the main themes to have emerged from this year's event.

17 Jan 2003
Agencies should resist being taken for granted in Iraq
Larry Minear, director of the Humanitarianism and War Project at Tufts University in Massachusetts, argues that humanitarian agencies should lay down the conditions under which they are prepared to become involved in aid activities during or after an eventual war in Iraq.

15 Jan 2003
NGOs confront fear of biochemical attack
The possible use of weapons of mass destruction has become a central concern for relief workers, acutely aware that they are dependent on the military as they prepare for a potential conflict in Iraq. Ruth Gidley asks how NGOs might cope with an emergency involving nuclear, biological or chemical agents.

Last updated:Fri Dec 18 20:26:30 2009