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Making Sense of Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

A Tale of Two Countries: Q and A with Professor Jennifer Leaning

On May 2, Cyclone Nargis hit the coast of Myanmar. Ten days later, an earthquake struck China's mountainous Sichuan Province. Both events left thousands dead, missing, injured, and homeless, and focused the world's attention on the actions of China's and Myanmar's governments.

In the Eye of the Storm

What lessons do Hurricane Katrina and other humanitarian crises teach us about managing calamity?

Giving Voice to the Dispossessed

A poll of evacuees shows that poverty and health problems beset the stranded.

A Virtual Academy of Disaster Responders

HSPH alumni, Red Cross forge ties through the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

Mold, Mold, Everywhere

Scientists see no precedent for the potential hazards in New Orleans.

Disaster in Berini

Mock humanitarian relief exercise gives students a reality check

Leaning in the Right Direction

HSPH Professor Jennifer Leaning is one of the few physicians anywhere thoroughly versed in the Geneva Conventions and the rules of humanitarian law. As a volunteer for Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), a group based in Boston, she has been on missionsto ravaged places that most of us experience only as fleeting headlines: the West Bank, Somalia, Soviet Georgia, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Afghanistan.

 

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