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Mobile clinics and hundred of community workers are mobilized to bring health care to the refugees in Yusuf Batil Refugee Camp.

Craig Calhoun, incoming Director of the London School of Economics (LSE) and President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), was at Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) on March 28 to talk about international responses to humanitarian emergencies. He will argue that while humanitarian responses have grown dramatically more prominent since the 1970s, this era of distinctive