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The humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has contacted both rebels and government to express its concern for the civilian population.
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The humanitarian organisation started life as The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in October 1942 at a meeting room at St Mary's church.
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Benevolence International describes itself in its brochures as a humanitarian organisation dedicated to helping victims of wars and natural disasters in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
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The Atlantis Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas donates meals from its 21 restaurants and 19 bars to Hands for Hunger, a local humanitarian organisation that supports poor local families, while the Pret a Manger sandwich shop chain donated more than 2.5 million food products to UK charities for the homeless in 2012.
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Neil Buhne, the organisation's humanitarian co-ordinator in Sri Lanka, said after a visit to camps for displaced civilians that he had seen infants with dysentery, malnourished children and women with untended wounds.
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Insi, based in Brussels and founded just a year ago, is a non-governmental organisation that brings together news providers, journalist support groups and humanitarian bodies with the common goal of promoting the safety of media around the world.
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Meanwhile in Iraq, the delegates are being briefed by UN humanitarian and other relief organisations such as the World Food Programme, World Health Organisation, UNICEF and UNHCR, before splitting-up on the last day.
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It said it was urgently appealing, along with the International Organisation for Migration, for governments to engage in "a massive humanitarian evacuation of tens of thousands of Egyptians and other third country nationals".
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Lucy Hocking's was joined on BBC World News by Baroness Cox, the founder of the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust charity and by Nurul Islam, of the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation.
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