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	Advice for First-Time Aid workers \| Aid Workers Network
		Aid agencies are short of good staff almost all the time, and all of their existing staff started somewhere.
		Many aid agencies are short-sighted when it comes to their recruitment: they want their staff to have got their experience elsewhere, and often do not invest in their own staff as they should.
		Ask an aid worker contact if you can take 20 minutes of their time to ask their advice on how to begin work in the area that they are working in.
	www.aidworkers.net /?q=advice/first_time_aid_workers (1032 words)

	Tired of re-inventing the wheel? We are ... \| Aid Workers Network
		Aid Workers Network is a free service set up to enable aid workers to share practical advice and resources with each other.
		Aid Workers Network is your starting point for finding out how they dealt with those situations and solved those problems - and for you to contribute your own experience to help others.
		Aid Workers Network thanks the British Red Cross and Oxfam for their generous support.
	www.aidworkers.net (216 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / For aid workers, a deadly blurring of lines
		But aid organizations receiving federal funding came under increasing pressure to sacrifice their independence and bring their operations under the rubric of the military.
		The result was a steady and profound erosion of trust in the neutrality of humanitarian aid workers.
		The social contract between the needy and an independent aid agency is wildly different than the one between the needy and a military advancing a foreign policy through the use of force.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/11/27/for_aid_workers_a_deadly_blurring_of_lines (742 words)

	3 aid workers killed in Afghan ambush - The Boston Globe
		Three foreign workers from an aid agency and two Afghans were killed yesterday when their car was ambushed in northwestern Afghanistan, police and the aid agency said.
		The assault, the deadliest on foreign aid workers since the US-led ouster of the Taliban regime in late 2001, is bound to raise new security fears that already prevent agencies from operating in much of the southern and eastern areas hit by the insurgency.
		Rebels of the former ruling Taliban regime and Al Qaeda, active in the Afghan south and east, have targeted aid workers over the past year in an apparent attempt to undermine efforts by the US-backed government to rebuild the country after a quarter century of war.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/06/03/3_aid_workers_killed_in_afghan_ambush (415 words)

	CNN.com - Western aid workers free - November 15, 2001
		The aid workers -- four Germans, two Americans and two Australians -- were all safely at their respective embassies and were said to be in good health.
		Their relief was evident as Georg Taubmann, head of the aid group in Afghanistan, told reporters how the Taliban had taken the eight with them on the retreat from Kabul.
		The aid workers were taken out of Afghanistan around 4:40 p.m.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/fyi/news/11/15/aid.workers/index.html (671 words)

	Aid Workers Increasingly a Target in Conflict Zones - Global Policy Forum - NGOs
		Aid workers complain they are often caught between two implacable foes - the US and Islamic insurgents - who have blurred the line between combatants and civilians to the detriment of the vulnerable.
		Aid workers - most of whom have spent their careers operating in conflict zones - say that the increasing dangers in Afghanistan and Iraq are rooted in the "hearts and minds" methods of the war on terrorism.
		While Western aid workers are more likely to get media attention, most of the aid workers who actually have died in Afghanistan and Iraq have been national staffers, the humanitarian worker adds.
	www.globalpolicy.org /ngos/aid/2004/1105targets.htm (1246 words)

	Worldandnation: Aid workers: More children may be dead
		Workers in Aceh province have collected 84,637 bodies, with as many as 132,000 more people missing, most of whom, three weeks after the tsunami, aren't expected to be found alive.
		Monday's travel ban for relief workers came after Denmark warned its aid workers to beware of an imminent terror attack - a caution that prompted U.N. officials to launch an investigation and declare a state of "heightened awareness" in Aceh, where separatists have been fighting for an independent state for decades.
		Insisting that aid workers had nothing to fear, rebel leader Tengku Mucksalmina dismissed Indonesian government claims that insurgents might attack relief convoys in hopes of stealing food for their fighters.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/01/18/Worldandnation/Aid_workers__More_chi.shtml (775 words)

	Security for aid workers - a missing link \| csmonitor.com
		Aid agencies need to begin providing appropriate security training for their representatives, but also better awareness of the situations in which they will operate.
		Key to protecting aid workers is the clear demarcation of the roles of the military and the aid organizations.
		Aid groups, they argue, should refuse to send anyone into the field until they have received proper security training, including background political and cultural briefings enabling them to better understand their environments.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/1220/p09s01-coop.html (986 words)

	CNN.com - Taliban move detained Western aid workers - November 13, 2001
		The eight aid workers are members of the German-based Shelter Now International, a Christian charity that provided food and homes to the poor of Afghanistan.
		Mercer said it is possible the Taliban were holding the workers for "some sort of leverage" against the United States, which is leading airstrikes on Taliban targets because the regime has been harboring Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist organization.
		The trial of the eight aid workers had just begun when the U.S.-led military campaign was launched against the Taliban for sheltering Osama bin Laden, blamed for the suicide-hijacking attacks in the United States that killed more than 4,000 people.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/13/gen.afghanistan.aidworkers (794 words)

	Attacks on humanitarian workers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The legal basis for protection of humanitarian workers in conflicts is contained in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the related Protocol of 1977.
		Republic of Somaliland - November 23, 1997 - UN negotiates with clan elders for release of 5 kidnapped aid workers.
		Kabul, Afghanistan - April 28, 2004 - Two Afghan aid workers and a soldier were killed in an attack in the Panjwayi district of southern Kandahar city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Attacks_on_humanitarian_workers (1665 words)

	CNN.com - Aid workers 'rescued' from Afghanistan - November 15, 2001
		Dayna Curry was one of eight Western aid workers held in Afghanistan.
		The aid workers -- four Germans, two Americans and two Australians -- had been detained by the Taliban since early August on charges of trying to convert Muslims to Christianity.
		Bush's comments came as the Taliban reportedly moved the aid workers from the capital, Kabul, to the southern stronghold of Kandahar.
	www.cnn.com /2001/US/11/14/gen.aid.workers/index.html (832 words)

	Aid Workers, Too, Suffering Post-Traumatic Stress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Experts warn that many aid organizations are not providing adequate psychological support to their staff.
		Lopes-Cardozo is now planning a CDC study that will track 300 aid workers over several years to see how they cope psychologically with their work.
		Toiling in trouble spots from Angola to Afghanistan, aid workers from agencies like the International Red Cross, CARE, and Doctors Without Borders sometimes risk their own lives to help victims of everything from natural disasters to war.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/12/1203_031203_aidworkers.html (464 words)

	Adjustment Risks of Humanitarian Aid Workers
		It is commonly acknowledged that humanitarian aid efforts are increasingly associated with a rising number of civil conflicts and with countries suffering from prolonged poverty and disaster (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 1998; Minear and Weiss, 1995).
		Humanitarian staff who are not well connected to other aid workers or in good communication with the aid organisation have limited access to formal and informal knowledge bases, which may further compound their anxiety and uncertainty.
		Difficulties in providing support for aid workers are intimately connected to the geographical and cultural distances between aid organisations and their employees that make this a complex task.
	www.massey.ac.nz /~trauma/issues/2004-1/mcfarlane.htm (6496 words)

	Worldandnation: U.S. aid workers freed from Taliban's grasp
		WASHINGTON -- Eight foreign aid workers, including two Americans, held in Afghanistan by the Taliban militia for three months for preaching Christianity were airlifted to freedom Wednesday by U.S. military helicopters, the Pentagon said.
		It was not clear whether the Taliban released the aid workers, including Americans Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry, or they escaped or were freed by U.S. forces.
		The president said he had been worried that the Taliban might put the aid workers in a house that might be bombed accidentally, and said the U.S. military had been working on plans for a secret rescue if needed.
	www.sptimes.com /News/111501/Worldandnation/US_aid_workers_freed_.shtml (607 words)

	International aid workers arrested by Taliban
		In the war-ruined capital, Kabul, aid workers said they fear their jobs, often difficult and dangerous as it is, could become even more so if the workers with the Christian-based Shelter Now International are found guilty of trying to convert Muslims to Christianity.
		In Kabul, other foreign aid workers say they fear all international groups, with the exception of Islamic relief organizations, will be branded proselytizers by Afghans.
		Privately, international aid workers fear the expulsions, arrests and closure of Western humanitarian aid groups may be an attempt to push international aid groups out of the country or at least reduce their numbers.
	www.rawa.org /aid.htm (1317 words)

	CNN.com - Aid worker: 'We were really scared' - November 15, 2001
		Freed German aid worker Georg Taubmann speaks with reporters outside the German Embassy in Islamabad.
		Eight Western aid workers held captive by the Taliban for three months were airlifted to safety by the U.S. military.
		As the news of the rescue spread, relatives, friends and members of Antioch Community Church in Waco, Texas -- where the two American aid workers -- Curry, 30, and Mercer, 24, are members -- celebrated by cheering, hugging and crying.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/15/gen.aid.workers/index.html (997 words)

	BBC News \| HEALTH \| 'Growing threat' to aid workers
		Humanitarian aid workers are increasingly likely to be killed in the line of duty, a study has found.
		Between 1992 and 1995, three out of four deaths among aid workers were caused by violence.
		According to the study, most workers died either in crossfire or were killed in cold blood.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/831960.stm (398 words)

	Darfur: Aid Workers Under Threat (Human Rights Watch, 5-4-2005)
		In several cases, the aid workers were detained in police stations or other government premises for hours or even days.
		Most of the alleged offenses leading to the arrests and detentions of the aid workers appear to be minor infractions of bureaucratic procedures and hardly serious enough to warrant criminal charges.
		Aid workers have also been arrested and detained for what the government perceives as “suspect activities,” including possessing published reports on the human rights situation in Darfur as well as photographs and footage of displaced persons interviewed in the camps.
	www.hrw.org /english/docs/2005/04/05/darfur10417.htm (784 words)

	Christian Aid Workers: More on Their Stupidity
		Yesterday I wrote that the prize for the stupidest people in the world could very well go to the eight foreign aid workers associated with Shelter Now, a German-based Christian organization, who apparently were caught in Afghanistan trying to convert people from Islam to Christianity.
		Along those lines, some other readers felt that the aid workers should be commended for risking their lives for their beliefs.
		Third: the aid workers didn't go to Afghanistan to protest or change an unjust situation, nor, by their own words, to risk their lives for their beliefs.
	www.therationalradical.com /dsep/0901/aid-workers.htm (615 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Aid workers taste freedom
		Eight Western aid workers freed in Afghanistan have been talking about the three months they were held captive by the Taleban.
		One of the German aid workers, Georg Taubmann, said the airlift followed a dramatic rescue by Northern Alliance forces.
		On hearing the news, Nancy Cassell, mother of aid worker Dayna Curry, said she was relieved to hear of her daughter's safety.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1657093.stm (709 words)

	Pentagon Endangers Aid Workers With False Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The move has outraged aid organisations who said their work is independent of the military and it was despicable to pretend otherwise.
		Fourteen aid workers were killed in Afghanistan last year and 11 so far this year.
		The Taliban claimed responsibility yesterday for the murder of two British security staff and their Afghan translator from the London-based crisis management company Global Risk Strategies, which is employed by the UN to help prepare for national elections scheduled for September.
	www.rense.com /general52/pentagonendangersaid.htm (624 words)

	RAWA.ORG: Seven aid workers killed, 3 of them women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Afghan aid workers – three women and one man from ActionAid International - were murdered when they were driving to the provincial capital of Sheberghan, Yousuf Stanizai, interior ministry spokesman, said.
		Aid workers have frequently been targeted over the past few months.
		In April, unidentified assailants killed five health ministry workers, including nurses, doctors and a driver, at their clinic in the Qadis district of the northwestern province of Badghis.
	www.rawa.org /aidworkers.htm (469 words)

	Aid & Development: Aid workers remain under threat, say NGO officials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 2005 alone, at least eight local and foreign aid workers were killed, and another two have been killed since January of this year.
		Turlan pointed out, however, that the number of local aid workers killed may be higher, due to a lack of statistical information.
		Turlan noted that violence against aid workers is also having serious repercussions on local populations.
	electroniciraq.net /news/2316.shtml (722 words)

	Aid Workers Forum \| Aid Workers Network
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	www.aidworkers.net /?q=forum (148 words)

	USATODAY.com - Aid workers: Afghanistan in jeopardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But United Nations officials and aid workers say the reality is much less bright.
		And on Nov. 16, as the nation celebrated the two-year anniversary of its liberation, a U.N. aid worker was killed.
		Aid workers say Afghans worry that the United States is more interested in Iraq.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-01-22-afghan-concerns_x.htm (715 words)

	At least 15 people said killed, 40 injured in Mogadishu attack...Relief workers evacuated from Mogadisho.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Two vehicles carrying the aid workers got separated Tuesday from a convoy that came under attack by gunmen loyal to faction leader Musa Sude Yalahow as it left the medical relief agency's compound in north Mogadishu.
		The aid workers who were freed _ two Spaniards, a Briton, an American and a French national _ flew to Nairobi, Kenya after meeting with Prime Minister Ali Khalid Gallaydh, who apologized for the incident.
		On Tuesday, an aide to Yalahow, who opposes the Mogadishu administration, said the incident would demonstrate to the world that President Abdiqassim Salad Hassan, who was attending the Arab Summit in Amman, Jordan, doesn't even control the Somali capital.
	www.somaliawatch.org /archivefeb01/010329101.htm (1090 words)

	Aid workers seek to break hunger cycle
		Ethiopia is the largest recipient of emergency aid per capita in the world.
		Emergency aid, meanwhile, continues to be relatively responsive to the ever-growing needs.
		Chronic hunger means that even in the best of harvest years there are children whose stomachs bloat, mothers whose breast milk dries up and grown men who lie motionless at the front of their huts, too weak to crawl inside.
	debub.net /aid_workers_seek_to_break_hunger_cycle.htm (968 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Humanitarian aid barred from Falluja (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But the US military said it saw no need for the Iraqi Red Crescent to deliver aid to people inside Falluja and said it did not think any Iraqi civilians were trapped inside the city.
		But aid workers say there are still hundreds of families left in the city, which has been pummelled by sustained aerial bombardment and artillery fire in recent days.
		The aid group sent seven trucks and ambulances to Falluja on Saturday, hoping to get food, blankets, water purification tablets and medicine to hundreds of families trapped inside the city during the previous six days of fighting.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/443C3B4E-C2D2-4B18-9C5C-7C9B657A8DCF.htm (601 words)

	FOXNews.com - Eight Foreign Aid Workers Freed, Officials Say - U.S. & World
		The aid workers -- two Americans, two Australians and four Germans -- were freed from a squalid Afghan prison during an anti-Taliban uprising.
		The aid workers for Shelter Now International, a German-based group, had been accused by the Taliban of preaching Christianity, a serious offense under the Taliban's harsh Islamic rule.
		Bush said the rescue of the aid workers ended one chapter in the five-week-old U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan, but the mission remained to topple the Taliban -- already run out of the north by rebels -- and to root out Usama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,38800,00.html (1290 words)

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