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The Huffington Post: "Fueling Humanitarian Aid"
Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Op-Ed by Carolyn Makinson, Women's Refugee Commission executive director - (Excerpt) This week, the United Nations is launching the work of a global task force that has been focusing on precisely this issue for the past two years. Led by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the World Food Program and my own agency—the Women's Refugee Commission—have for the first time created a new humanitarian policy that will compel cooking fuel to be addressed with the same level of urgency as food and water.

Design Concepts: "Franchino Presents Alternative Fuel at Humanitarian Conference"
Thursday, April 9, 2009. (Excerpt) Dave Franchino, president of Design Concepts and one of the founders of Sologear, LLC, recently spoke at the conference Beyond Firewood: Exploring alternative fuels and energy technologies in humanitarian settings. Beyond Firewood, an international research conference organized by the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, took place in New Delhi, India, December 11- 12, 2008.

The Boston Globe: "Making life safer for refugee women"
Friday, December 12, 2008. Op-Ed by Liv Ullmann, co-founder of the Women's Refugee Commission - (Excerpt) As the global financial and economic crisis continues to throw countless numbers of people out of work, millions of refugee women and girls in developing countries continue to toil at a task that is not only arduous but extremely dangerous: collecting firewood to cook meals for their families.

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