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HAVE YOUR SAY: How can we make aid work safer?
01 Sep 2008 09:03:00 GMT
Author: AlertNet

The job of delivering aid has never been more dangerous. Attacks on humanitarian organisations have more than doubled in the last five years with militants increasingly viewing the aid industry as a stooge of Western governments and their military forces. Aid workers have become targets in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan, among other places.

How closely should relief agencies be working with security forces to protect their staff?

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Satmaps said to show ethnic violence in South Ossetia
29 Aug 2008 14:31:00 GMT
Author: liesbeth Renders

Satellite images have long been useful to aid workers and governments in planning humanitarian assistance. But the increase in availability of high-resolution commercial imagery taken from the heavens is now helping human rights workers document abuses on the ground.

UNOSAT, a U.N. programme set up to put satellite imagery at the disposal of the relief and reconstruction community, has been using commercial satellites to hone in on the conflict between Georgia and Russia in South Ossetia. Analysis by UNOSAT experts shows patterns of destruction that may be consistent with evidence of ethnic attacks gathered by Human Rights Watch researchers working in the region.

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Desperation grows in war-scorched Georgia
29 Aug 2008 14:10:00 GMT
Author: Marie Cacace

The fields that line the main road leading from Tbilisi to Gori have been burnt to a crisp. Blackened buildings and the occasional gaping hole in the road are stark reminders of bombs dropped during this conflict that led to a mass influx of displaced people into the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.

Countless houses are scarred with shattered windows. Bullet holes frame doors to what a few weeks ago were people's homes. In Gori's town square, crowds of people gather, waiting to be told by local authorities whether their homes are safe enough to return to. They've just made the journey from Tbilisi where they had been seeking shelter for the past weeks, many of them receiving assistance from aid agencies like Oxfam and their local partner NGOs.

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"We saw things you wouldn't see in a horror movie" - Georgian doctor
27 Aug 2008 16:19:00 GMT
Author: Marie Cacace

Manana Mikaberidze is dressed in black, as if in mourning for all that she's just lost. Displaced by the conflict in Georgia, the doctor forces a smile as she leads us into a classroom that she now calls home – and her consultation room.

The blackboard behind her still has writing on it, traces of the last lesson taught before the Tbilisi school ended for the summer holiday. As she gestures for us to sit down, she looks embarrassed and apologises for the state of our surroundings. Her chin and lip begin to quiver and she bursts into tears.

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Georgians feed baby on grass as they flee tanks
26 Aug 2008 17:59:00 GMT
Author: Marie Cacace

Tamasi and his family ran for the forest when he learned Russian tanks were rolling towards his village north of Gori. After hiding in the shadows of the trees for more than a week, he finally accepted that they wouldn't be returning any time soon and fled to Tbilisi.

Now, living in a kindergarten in Georgia's capital and dependent on assistance from aid agencies, Tamasi is wondering when he will be reunited with those left behind in his village of Dzevera. The rural areas north of Gori are still largely inaccessible.

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