| GLOBAL: Children’s rights not yet a reality |
 DAKAR, 20 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Children’s rights advocates are taking 20 November, the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to highlight legal advances, but say when it comes to education, healthcare and protection in conflicts and natural disasters, children are often the first to be deprived of their rights.
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GLOBAL: Food aid that gets you two for the price of one |  JOHANNESBURG, 18 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Good quality food aid can save billions of dollars that would otherwise be spent on saving lives, says a major report from the World Bank, one of two new studies that uncover some unsettling facts about food aid and malnutrition.
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In Brief: Afghan Red Crescent condemns NATO operation at its office |  KABUL, 10 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) has denounced a NATO-led military operation at its office in Qalat, capital of the southern province of Zabul, on 7 November.
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GLOBAL: Mixed scorecard for donors |  DAKAR, 10 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - The world’s wealthiest donors do not put enough into helping communities prevent and prepare for disaster, says the non-profit DARA International, in its third annual rating of donors on quality and efficacy of humanitarian aid.
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GLOBAL: Fortified flour and chewing gum - new approaches to malnutrition |  NAIROBI, 9 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Some of the most widespread forms of malnutrition can best be reduced by delivering micronutrients and fortifying food in new, cost-effective ways, in combination with community outreach work, experts have said.
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SYRIA: WFP pilots SMS food distribution |  DAMASCUS, 4 November 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - A new pilot project by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Syria has come up with a novel way of getting food aid to Iraqi refugees. WFP claims the project is a world first.
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GLOBAL: Reaching the pneumonia "tipping point" |  DAKAR, 2 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Health organizations have joined forces to launch the first World Pneumonia Day, urging governments, donors and civil society to act to prevent and treat the world’s leading child killer.
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GLOBAL: Malaria tests minus the blood |  DAKAR, 29 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - To detect malaria people might soon be able to chew a stick of gum and swipe it over a magnet or scan a finger with ultra-far infrared light. Neither test requires a blood sample.
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In Brief: Flood-hit farmers face hunger in Laos |  VIENTIANE, 26 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - Farmers in southern Laos who lost their harvests to floods caused by Typhoon Ketsana face a year of hunger if they do not receive rice seeds soon to replant their crops, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns.
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In Brief: The IASC needs you |  NAIROBI, 23 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), a grouping of UN and non-UN organizations that since 1992 has worked to harmonize humanitarian best practice, is conducting a review of its various policy statements, guidelines and manuals.
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