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Struggling to Make a Living in Ethiopia: Surviving in the Informal Economy

This article was written by Jina Krause-Vilmar, Senior Program Officer for the Women's Refugee Commission’s livelihoods program, for the Huffington Post. The original article can be read here.

Food is scarce in Ethiopia, where most of the population lives in rural, drought-prone areas in a state of chronic poverty. In 2010, the Government of Ethiopia identified 5.2 million people in need of emergency food aid. Not surprisingly, this hunger crisis also impacts the thousands of refugees living just within Ethiopia's borders.

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Building Back a Better Haiti: The Need for Cooking Fuel

This article was written by Erin Patrick, Senior Program Officer for the Women's Refugee Commission’s Fuel and Firewood Initiative for the Huffington Post. The original article can be read here.

The names in this post have been changed to protect their privacy.

The morning I met Nadine in her new "home" in a former park in the middle of the Peacutetionville neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, it had been raining -- the first rain since the earthquake. The ground was muddy and slick, and her shelter did not have a floor. She and her family slept on cardboard boxes on the dirt. The shelter did, however, have walls and a roof of bed sheets and some plastic sheeting. A rudimentary charcoal stove was set up just outside, where a small pot of rice was cooking for the day's meal for her family of five.

Read more: Building Back a Better Haiti: The Need for Cooking Fuel

JORDAN: Where Iraqi Women Are Also Fathers

A report put out by the Women’s Refugee Commission in December 2009 affirms that the vast majority of Iraqis in Jordan cannot lawfully work and have few sources of sustainable income. Read more

Watch Us On NY1's "Women Helping Women" Series

As NY1 continues its coverage of Women's History Month, the station profiles an organization that works to address the specific needs of refugee women and children, who make up about 80 percent of refugees worldwide. NY1's Shazia Khan filed the following report. Watch the video here

Haiti: Remembering the Needs of People with Disabilities

Director of protection, Dale Buscher, discusses the urgent need to include people with disabilities in Haiti's emergency response and reconstruction efforts in an article on Huffington Post.

Haiti 'orphan' rescue mission: Adoption or child trafficking?

This weekend's arrest of 10 members of an Idaho-based Baptist charity for trying to take 33 Haitian children across the border with the Dominican Republic without proper paperwork has become an international incident. Read more

Haiti: Women and Girls at Risk

Executive Director, Carolyn Makinson talks about Haiti and the risks faced by women and girls in an article on Huffington Post.

Haiti Adoptions

CNN quotes Women's Refugee Commission on reuniting children with their families in Haiti. Read more.

Liv Ullmann taking on role of a teacher

The Miami Herald interviews Liv Ullmann, cofounder and honorary chair of the Women's Refugee Commission. Read the article in The Miami Herald.

Liv Ullmann featured in New Yorker Talk of the Town

The New Yorker has a story on Women's Refugee Commission cofounder and honorary chair Liv Ullmann and her involvement in refugee issues. Read the article in The New Yorker.