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White realized that some of Fogel’s data had been published in an earlier cross-sectional study published in the journal SLEEP, and Fogel confirmed that the fabricated research was included in the published report...
...what with a global recession deepening every day and numerous conflicts raging. But as the number of aid workers operating across the globe has soared - more than doubling over the past decade to a record 290,000 people last year - so too have attacks against them, according to a report published Wednesday by the London-based think tank Overseas Development Institute...
...Vast parts of Sudan, Somalia and Afghanistan are without humanitarian assistance because it has become too dangerous to operate there," says Peter Buth of the emergency team of Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Holland. "It is incredibly frustrating." The surge in attacks, says the ODI report, "highlights the dearth of viable options to keep staff secure in the most volatile contexts, where humanitarian aid is most needed...
...According to the report, an average of 95 aid workers were killed in each of the past three years, up from an average of about 66 each year between 2003 and 2006. The rate of kidnappings of aid workers has accelerated even more quickly, from about 18 a year between 2003 and 2006, to about 57 a year for the past three years. Operating across hundreds of countries, aid workers are in most danger in places where they represent one of the few Western organizations left in the area - as in Somalia, the villages of Darfur or remote parts...
...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...