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Commemorating World Humanitarian Day
Today we celebrate World Humanitarian Day, honoring the men and women who devote their lives to the challenging and dangerous work of providing humanitarian aid. Every day,...
How Will Your Support of our Luncheon Help Refugee Women and Children?
By supporting our 2011 Voice of Courage Luncheon you will help improve the lives of refugee women and children. Your support helps to ensure that women can access emergency reproductive health care, that children and families in immigrant...
Need for Clean Cook Stoves in New York Times
In a letter to the editor of the New York Times, Sarah Costa, executive director, talks about the need for clean cook stoves in refugee settings. Read the letter as it appeared in the New York Times.
New Global Initiative Will Provide Clean Cookstoves for Refugee Women
I met a Somali woman in...
Photo Blog: Our Fuel and Firewood Team Visits Refugee Camps in Kenya
Reducing the Risks of Gender-Based Violence: Moving from Theory to Practice
The Movement for Clean Cooking Stoves Gathers Steam
In the Somali refugee camp in eastern Ethiopia where she has lived for over a decade, Habiba* uses firewood to cook food for her family. Even though the smoke it produces irritates her eyes and makes her children cough late into the night, she...
Voices from Dadaab: the Daily Struggle to Cook a Meal
When Food Is Not Enough to Stop Famine
Read the Huffington Post piece by Senior Program Officer Erin Patrick on the cooking fuel needs of the thousands of Somalis fleeing famine and pouring...
When War Stops, the Impact on the Environment Lives On
Erin Patrick, senior program officer of our Fuel and Firewood Initiative has a new blog out featured in the Huffington Post, disscusing the negative...
Women's Refugee Commission Welcomes Clean Stoves Initiative
September 21, 2010The Women's Refugee Commission welcomes the announcement today by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of the Global Alliance for Clean...
