Interview with Rashid Khalikov, Director of OCHA, New York

Rashid Khalikov, a graduate of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations, started his career as a diplomat with several postings to his credit. However, it was not in diplomacy that he was going to conduct an interesting career, but as a humanitarian. At the time that the United Nations created the Department for Humanitarian...

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Interview with Pat Banks, Co-ordinator and founder of the Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN)

The Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) celebrated its tenth year of operation last year. A part of the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Human Activities (OCHA), yet independent, IRIN was established in 1995 to provide accurate and timely information about the Great Lakes crisis so that the humanitarian community would be better informed...

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