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When news comes of attacks on aid workers in Afghanistan, it is difficult to separate out personal emotions from wider thoughts about the gradual descent of the country into chaos.
UN and non-governmental aid workers are the easiest international ...
From CONOR FOLEY,
Comment Is Free,
28 Oct 2009
We had a new addition to the family at the weekend, which is going to make it quite difficult for me to post anything more in the near future.
Daniel Foley arrived at 5.15 am on Saturday 29 August. He weighs just over 3 kg and is about 51 cm. Despite ...
From CONOR FOLEY,
Crooked Timber,
31 Aug 2009
I spoke at a seminar on UN peace-keeping a couple of weeks ago. Here is the text of my paper:
I lived in Afghanistan for a year and a half in 2003/2004 and returned there twice in 2008: the first time to do some research for the Overseas Development ...
From CONOR FOLEY,
Crooked Timber,
27 Aug 2009
The latter book tells the story of Brazil’s all-women police stations. Hautzinger spent some time living in a favela to research it and she remembers in her encounters with foreign journalists:
It became clear that they had hoped I would regale them ...
From CONOR FOLEY,
Crooked Timber,
23 Aug 2009
John Holmes the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs has a nice tribute to the UN workers who died in the Baghdad Bombing of 19 August 2003, six years ago today. he notes that ‘On this day in 2003, the UN offices in Baghdad were blown up by a truck ...
From CONOR FOLEY,
Crooked Timber,
19 Aug 2009
Amnesty has just published a good report and action. It calls ‘for the immediate release of 285,000 innocent civilians – including an estimated 50,000 children – being held in cramped and squalid camps in the north of Sri Lanka.’
Here are a couple of ...
From CONOR FOLEY,
Crooked Timber,
18 Aug 2009
Oxfam has managed to get a law on domestic violence enacted in Malawi, according to Duncan Green, its Head of Research.
I like Duncan. He has written some excellent stuff on Latin America and his wife is a former colleague of mine. I agree with him ...
From CONOR FOLEY,
Crooked Timber,
14 Aug 2009
a) 16: b) 35,000: c) 400,000: d) 7.5 million: e) 0
The first figure is the number of fatalities in Darfur for the month of June of this year – the most recent date for which they are available – and is taken from Alex de Waal’s widely-respected Making ...
From CONOR FOLEY,
Crooked Timber,
12 Aug 2009
The announcement that the United Nations has a record $4.8bn funding gap for its 2009 aid programmes may not strike some observers as news. For the last two decades, in particular, the UN has lurched from one financial crisis to another. Although the ...
From CONOR FOLEY,
Comment Is Free,
22 Jul 2009
Contrary to international law there is no freedom of movement for the displaced, and no transparency in registration and interview processes. The standards and amounts of water, food and sanitation are well below what they should be and half of the ...
From CONOR FOLEY,
Comment Is Free,
16 Jul 2009
