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U.S. must deal with humanitarian crisis in Pakistan
January 13, 2011 Renata Rendón Pakistan, Asia
Note: This blog post originally appeared on The Hill's Congress Blog.

As Friday’s memorial service for Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke approaches and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari travels to Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should put critical humanitarian and human rights issues front and center in her discussions with President Zardari.
Devastation Times Three: Man-Made and Natural Disasters Compound in Pakistan
October 06, 2010 Renata Rendón Pakistan, Asia
“This is where the Taliban used to hang bodies,” the local officer from the U.N Refugee Agency, UNHCR, told us as we drove past a store front. “They would attach a note to the bodies alerting family members not to move them before noon so the entire community would see them.” We were not in an isolated, rural part of northwest Pakistan. We were on a busy street in a bustling town in the Swat district; whose lush green mountains and hotel-lined rivers tucked away in a deep valley attracted both Pakistani and international tourists until a few years ago.  
Pakistan: Supporting a War Without Laws?
May 04, 2010 Renata Rendón Pakistan

Two weeks ago there was a devastating attack in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Pakistan. A suicide bomber blew himself up as displaced families lined up to receive assistance. A few minutes later another bomber detonated his explosives in the middle of the crowd that had gathered. More than 40 people were killed and approximately 70 injured.