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Social and Economic Policies to Prevent Complex Humanitarian Emergencies

Report
UN University
Summarising the results of research conducted during 1996-7, this policy brief examines the impact of failed development, political and institutional policies and botched responses to initial crises in causing complex humanitarian emergencies.

Among other factors, the report considers horizontal inequality between social groups in the distribution of assets, state jobs, social services etc, the failure of political institutions and the ensuing crisis of the state, the protracted worsening of economic conditions and external shocks.

Through its identification of strucutural
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Measuring Nutritional Dimensions of Household Food Security

This guide outlines methodologies to assist practitioners in improving the nutritional impact of development activities, aiming to be of use to project controllers and others interested by this issue.

For this purpose, it examines the meaning of nutritional assessment and the means by which it can reinforce linkages between nutrition and agricultural development. In addition, it considers how nutritional assessment can be used in rural development projects for beneficiary targeting and project formulation, as well as for practical project monitoring and evaluation.
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Rapid Appraisal Methods for the Assignment, Design and Evaluation of Food Security Programs

This guide illustrates how Rapid Appraisal (RA) methods can provide useful insights to the research and design of food security interventions, as well as their limitations. It adresses the following issues:

- Advantages and disadvantages of Rapid Appraisal methods over survey-based methods
- Community mapping
- Household food security ranking
- Conceptual mapping of food sources
- Seasonnal food security time lines
- Evaluations of interventions' impact on food security

The guide seeks to be of use to project

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Guidelines for Safe Disposal of Unwanted Pharmaceuticals in and after Emergencies

These guidelines provide advice on the implementation of safe disposal of unusable pharmaceuticals in emergencies and in countries in transition where official assistance and advice may not be available. They are not meant to supersede local, regional or national laws regarding disposal of drugs, but to provide assistance where there is insufficient guidance or none at all. A number of methods for safe disposal of pharmaceuticals are described. The document is divided into three main categories:

- Disposal methods
- Sorting categories
- Recommended disposal methods by sorting
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Humanitarian Exchange Magazine No. 13 - RNN Newsletter

Codes of conduct have become an important part of humanitarian systems, this issue discusses whether or not they are needed. This edition of the newsletter carries pieces on the Code of Conduct of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA), the Code of Conduct for Humanitarian Agencies in Sierra Leone, the Principles of Engagement for Humanitarian Assistance in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the NGO Field Cooperation Protocol. Other codes in recent years include the Red Cross/NGO Code of Conduct (perhaps the 'mother of all codes'
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Kyrgyzstan, Russia repeat calls for peace in Afghanistan

Consultations between officials from the Kyrgyz and Russian Foreign Ministries took place in Bishkek on 26 February and resulted in a call for "UN-supervised negotiations," Interfax reported. Both parties said they felt "a degree of moral responsibility" for events in Afghanistan, and both agreed that negotiations that were conducted in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, last month by representatives of the Taliban and the northern alliance are an encouraging sign. Both also said their countries are "always ready" to help settle the conflict. BP
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Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan marks anniversary of Khodjaly killings...

Azerbaijanis on 26 February commemorated the 1992 killings by Russian and Karabakh Armenian troops of several hundred Azerbaijani civilians in the Karabakh village of Khodjaly. Aliev termed those deaths "one of the most terrible tragedies of the 20th century," adding that the Azerbaijani leadership bore part of the blame for them. He vowed that if necessary, Azerbaijan will use force to liberate those regions currently occupied by Karabakh Armenian troops, Turan reported. LF
...AS OFFICIAL VERSION OF KILLINGS QUESTIONED

But the chairman of the commission on

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Serbia + 1 other
MCI Kosovo Field Report: Convoys Continue; Food Reaches Mitrovica

Report
Mercy Corps
PEC/PEJA
Last week's on-again/off-again evacuations of expatriate staff contributed to a reduced number of convoys and distributions in MCI's Pec/Peja area of responsibility (AOR).

Staff were able, however, to conduct seven convoys, which consisted of Food for Peace commodities (flour, vegetable oil and beans), as well as non-food commodities such as hygiene kits, clothing, and sanitary napkins. Staff also performed normal monitoring functions in Klina and Decan municipalities.

Convoys were stopped on numerous occasions

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Eritrea + 1 other
Ethiopia Frowns on Security Council Arms Banning Resolution

Report
Xinhua
ADDIS ABABA (March 1) XINHUA - The Ethiopian Parliament, the House of People's Representatives Monday called on the United Nations Security Council to reconsider its resolution 1227 which bans states from selling arms to both Ethiopia and Eritrea.

The Security Council Adopted on February 10 resolution 1227 which "strongly urges all States to end immediately sales of arms and munitions to Ethiopia and Eritrea".

In a nine-point resolution, the House considered resolution 1227 as " discriminatory, unfair and totally

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Sudan appeals for UN assistance in removing landmines

KHARTOUM, March 1 (AFP) - The Sudanese government appealed Monday to the United Nations to help it remove landmines from battlegrounds in the south and east of the country.

Sudan is "doing its best" to remove the landmines, State Foreign Minister Ali Abdel Rahman al Nimeiri told a press conference, adding that Khartoum hoped the United Nations could support its efforts.

Nimeiri said between half a million and two million mines are strewn across an area of more than 10 million hectares (25 million acres) in southern and eastern Sudan.

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Eritrea + 1 other
OAU calls for immediate end to fighting in Horn of Africa

ADDIS ABABA March 1 (AFP) - The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) on Monday called for an immediate end to the fighting between Ethiopia and Eritrea, now that both sides have accepted its blueprint for peace.

OAU officials were expected to meet members of the Ethiopian government Monday before heading for Asmara, where authorities on Monday said clashes were still taking place.

Welcoming Eritrea's acceptance Saturday of its peace plan, the OAU said an immediate end to conflict would allow the plan, presented last November, to be put into effect.

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South African tourists stranded by Mozambique floods

MAPUTO, March 1 (AFP) - Dozens of South African tourists were stranded Monday in Mozambique's coastal town of Vilankulo awaiting an air lift after floods destroyed roads, officials said.

Vilankulo district authorities said some tourists had to sell their vehicles or boats to pay for rides on chartered planes out of the town, which is opposite the popular Bazaruto archipelago.

Authorities said the local airport was overcrowded. Torrential rains cut the main north-south highway on both sides of the small town of Vilankulo.

The most serious damage was south of

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Sudan: Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union

Report
European Union
DN: PESC/99/7 Release Date: 1999-03-01 - 5456/99 (Presse 22)

Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union in connection with the incoming Ministerial Mission of the Co-Presidency of the IPF Committee on Sudan

Brussels, 22 January 1999 - In view of the incoming Ministerial Mission to the region of the Co-Presidency of the IPF Committee on Sudan, the European Union, while recognising the progresses and the efforts made sofar, reiterates the importance of extending the current cease-fire in time and renews its appeal for its geographical

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Mystery Afghan illness likely Flu-Type Virus: WHO

GENEVA, March 1 (Reuters) - A mystery illness in Afghanistan that killed at least 190 people was probably a flu-like virus made deadly by poor living conditions and a lack of medicines, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.

The U.N. agency said a team that visited the remote area of northeastern Afghanistan where the illness broke out had treated sufferers with antibiotics with significant success.

"The preliminary conclusions of the WHO team in the field are that the outbreak, which is now declining, was of an influenza-like illness which has affected a large proportion

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North Korea sinking deeper into malnutrition, food crisis: UNDP

by Lorien Holland

BEIJING, March 1 (AFP) - North Korea's food crisis is deepening and the population is increasingly suffering from malnutrition despite the efforts of the international community, a top UN official warned Monday.

"The situation is not getting any better. In fact it is getting worse and malnutrition has spread up from the under-sixes to the under-17s," said Christian Lemaire, UN Development Programme representative in Pyongyang.

"Diseases that had been eradicated like tuberculosis are coming back," he added.

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Guinea + 1 other
UNHCR chief praises Guinea for hosting SLeone refugees

ABIDJAN, March 1 (AFP) - Visiting UN refugee agency chief Sadako Ogata on Monday praised Guinea for providing a welcome to refugees from Sierra Leone, noting the hardships involved.

"The clarity and firmness of Guinea offering continued asylum was not a surprise but a very pleasant assurance. At the same time, the need to help the government to carry on that commitment is not going to be that easy," Ogata said at the end of a week-long west African tour.

"If the people turn against the refugees, it's going to be very, very serious," Ogata said.

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Serbia + 2 others
Kosovars flee to Macedonia

Up to 3,000 Kosovar civilians tried to flee to Macedonia on 28 February to escape a Serbian assault on their homes in the Hani I Elezit area, near Kosova's southern border. Serbian forces prevented the civilians from crossing the frontier, saying they lack the necessary papers. Reuters reported on 1 March that some 350 civilians took shelter in a nearby snow- covered forest, but it is unclear where the other displaced persons are at present. In nearby Kacanik, at least one Serbian policeman died in fighting on 28 February. The BBC said that the continuing
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Afghanistan + 10 others
Landmines: Ottawa Treaty becomes law

Report
ICRC
Joint communication to the press: ICRC No. 99/10 - Federation No. 99/05
Geneva (ICRC/Federation) - On behalf of the hundreds of thousands of mine victims and the millions who live each day in fear of those weapons, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies whole-heartedly welcome the entry into force of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on their Destruction (the Ottawa treaty).

The treaty, which has become law more