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Climate change risks global food shocks
The risk of extreme weather events causing global ‘food shocks’ is set to rise sharply u...

Sharp increase in anti-vehicle mine incidents
Switzerland: Eighty-six accidents related, or that are suspected to be related, to anti-vehicle mine...

Guardian angel Siri and pocket dialling save teen trapped under truck
A patient who survived the unthinkable has brought a whole new meaning to the term ‘butt diall...

UN Humanitarian Chief horrified by 'total disrespect for civilian life' in Syria
The United Nations Humanitarian Chief and Emergency Relief Co-ordinator, Stephen O’Brien, conc...

Saving Lives: The Civil-Military Response to the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
The Marie Bashir Institute and Centre for International Security Studies in Australia have rele...

European Aviation: Commission releases Task Force's report on Germanwings incident
Brussels: The Commission published the report it received from a Task Force led by the European...

France: A summer of attempted terrorist attacks
Editorial Advisory Panel Member Christophe Libeau describes two further terrorist attempts in F...

London Bomb attacks ten years on
July 7, 2015 is the tenth anniversary of the London bomb attacks, in which 52 people died. Here, Red...

New CRJ Editorial Advisory Panel Member
CRJ is pleased to welcome Robert McAlister to its Editorial Advisory Panel. After leaving the...

Infographic: Humanitarian aid and trends in procurement
Aid International Development Forum (AIDF) has released an infographic (see below) that explores hum...

UNISDR releases official Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 publication
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) has announced the release of the offi...

Annual report on terrorism
Roger Gomm, Editorial Advisory Panel Member and CRJ Security Correspondent, advises on reading the U...

Standby team for disease outbreaks
The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, used the G7 summit in Germany to outline how the UK will ...

CRJ 10:4 out now!
CRJ 10:4 is being mailed to subscribers - here's what's inside this issue... News Bringing light a...

Escalating fighting in Syria threatens critical humanitarian supply routes
Gaziantep, Turkey: A major escalation in fighting among all parties to the Syrian conflict is threat...

South Africa: Two out of three major Cape fires started deliberately
According to a forensic investigation report released on Thursday 7 May by the City of Cape Town, tw...

Turkey joins European Civil Protection Mechanism
Today Christos Stylianides, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, signed the a...

Escalating refugee crisis in Burundi - emergency situation is worsening
Advisory Panel Member Roger Gomm reports from Rwanda, where says that his students are con...