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  • Confronted with that fact during the CSIS talk, the minister stubbornly refused to answer my question about the human rights impact of the most recent presidential commission of inquiry (established in 2006) into several high level human rights cases, including the execution style murder of 17 aid workers of the French organization Action Contre la Faim (ACF).

    Amnesty International: Sec. Clinton's shot at uncovering justice for Sri Lanka's war crimes 2010

  • The charities expelled include Oxfam, Care International and Action Contre la Faim - all seen as "big hitters".

    Rob Crilly: Sudan Expels Charities From Darfur 2009

  • French NGO Action contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger-ACF) lodged one such proposal, its director-general François Danel saying after the meeting that Kouchner had welcomed their suggestion.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • On Dec. 18, in the southern town of Gereida, unrelated gunmen attacked the compounds of Oxfam and Action Contre la Faim.

    Africa: War On The Rescuers 2007

  • Faim (AcF), an international non-government organisation, including to provide food and medical supplies to an estimated 200,000 beneficiaries.

    Australia Provides Further Assistance to Maluku 2000

  • Contre la Faim (AICF - International Action against Hunger) flatly denied that 24-year-old Rudy Marq was freed in Mogadishu on

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • 'Demolition Man' is simply atrocious compared to the Grace Jones version, and the French 'Z'-level vocalising of' J'Aurais Toujours Faim De Toi (Hungry For You) 'will, I wager, have them snorting into their Pernods across the Manche in much the same way that our German cousins slapped their lederhosen in hilarious disbelief at Bowie's efforts with' Helden '.

    Ghost In The Machine 1981

  • His spirits sank even lower at the sight of his great mediaeval erection and its front, in the style of the _Tour de la Faim_, all covered with bills; it suggested the piles of overdue accounts.

    The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • In 2009, three foreign aid workers working for the French charity Action Contre la Faim ACF were nabbed by Somali gunmen from the Kenyan border town of Mandera.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • A woman feds a girl with a porridge-like mix of corn, soy, salt and sugar at a center run by the French food aid group Action Contre la Faim in Gonaives, Haiti,

    WN.com - Business News 2010

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