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UN agencies should ramp up their cross-border and cross-line assistance to Syria, in close cooperation with humanitarian organisations like ours, which have been delivering aid from neighbouring countries for nearly three years now.
This is why it has been bombing and shelling civilians, denying them access to UN-ordered cross-border assistance and blocking vaccination efforts in opposition held areas.
The Australian Lawyers for Human Rights said if not for inconsistencies in safeguards around cross-agency assistance, "Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran may not have been exposed to a sentence of death".
Inter-vehicle communication promises to prevent accidents by enabling applications such as cross-traffic assistance.
For this radio technology, cross-traffic assistance at inner city intersections is one of the most challenging use cases.
Hawala, though well-established and widely available, is legally restricted within Turkey, and the implications surrounding use of these systems for cross-border assistance remain unclear.
The remaining £19.4m will go to agencies providing cross-border assistance who want to remain anonymous given the sensitivity and security risks to their work, DfID added.
Recent guidance on use of the hawala system for cross-border assistance operations provides insight into the technical complexities and challenges of negotiating and coordinating with financial institutions and providers in Syria (Beachwood International 2015a; El-Qorchi et al. 2003).
The government and allied forces, it wrote, "are likely to continue to encircle and eventually cut off eastern Aleppo city from cross-border assistance".
There, one of the great grassroots success stories, Dr. Cynthia Maung's Mae Tao Clinic, has for 21 years managed to care for over 250,000 semi-permanent refugees while also providing quiet cross-border assistance to those who need it.
