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...often retreat to the capital cities of conflict-ridden countries or to their headquarters abroad, leaving behind local staff to run essential services like distributing food or running health posts. "Organizations perceive that their local staff are going to be more secure because they live in the region," says Harmer. Yet they are just as likely to be attacked, according to the ODI report. Somalis working for U.N. aid agencies faced the highest rate of attacks of any aid workers in the world last year - about 46.7 attacks for every 1,000 workers. That's because they are often drivers...
...complexes ringed with barbed wire, for example, and pooling intelligence with other humanitarian groups. Still, the new tactics offer no guarantees against well-armed foes. "The attacks have much more to do with the aid workers' status, rather than because they have assets or cash on hand," says Adele Harmer, research associate for the Humanitarian Policy Group at ODI and one of the authors of the report. (See a PDF of the report.) The organizations are associated with foreign powers, with what is perceived to be the enemy...
According to Buth and the ODI's Harmer, it is unclear why kidnappings of aid workers have taken off so quickly. One reason could be that the tactic has spread from Iraq, where insurgents have kidnapped hundreds of foreign contractors since the U.S. invasion in 2003. As in Iraq, kidnappings of foreign aid workers - like those in Darfur - "make for a more visible political statement" than attacking local humanitarian staff, says the ODI report. Aid organizations have always insisted that they do not pay ransoms for their kidnapped staff. But the reality is more complicated. A few years...
...moments, the orchestra’s sound felt flat in the 1,166-seat concert hall. Sakir led precisely but cautiously. After Sakir’s brief stint on the Sanders stage, he was relieved by Hangen, the conductor of the BCO, who introduced California-born soprano Wendy Bryn Harmer to conclude the first half of the concert with the prelude and “Liebestod” from “Tristan and Isolde.” Garbed in a floor-length dress of dull bluish gray, Harmer took a seat in the back of the orchestra...
...SARAH HARMER I'M A MOUNTAIN Songs about theenvironment are rarely as good as their singers' intentions, but Escarpment Blues, like much of Harmer's third album, is exceptional. The lyrics are oblique ("If they blow a hole in the backbone/ The one that runs cross the muscles of the land"), but the singing is direct. Blessed with a precise alto, Harmer never adds filigree to her vocals or arrangements. She just lets natural beauty speak for itself...