Housing, Land and Property (HLP) rights must be protected. The HLP rights of women, men and children affected by the current crisis in Syria are at risk, and the mechanisms to secure them are lacking or disrupted. Groups potentially at risk include the poor (17% of the population), women (50% of the population), children/youth (21% of the population), and internally displaced persons (2 million).

Background

In some countries up to 1 child out of 4 suffers from abuse, exploitation, violence and neglect. Between 500 million and 1.5 billion children are estimated to experience violence annually; 150 million girls and 73 million boys worldwide are raped or subject to sexual violence every year; 115 million children are involved in hazardous work.

General Overview

1 . OBJECTIVE

To report the situation of ongoing displacement caused by armed conflict in Central Mindanao

2 . AFFECTED AREAS

Maguindanao Province: Municipalities of Ampatuan, Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Datu Abdullah Sangki, Datu Hoffer, Datu Unsay, Guindulungan, Shariff Aguak

North Cotabato Province: Municipality of Pikit

3 . CURRENT SITUATION

Situation

Kinshasa, 12 juillet 2012 – Le cluster protection est vivement préoccupé pour la sécurité des civils au Nord Kivu si de nouveaux affrontements armés devaient être déclenchés dans le territoire de Rutshuru, notamment pour le contrôle des villes de Rutshuru ou Kiwanja.

General Overview

During the month of June, the security situation remained unchanged from the previous month due to continued fighting between TFG/AMISOM and Al Shabaab forces. Al Shabaab continued losing control over a number of areas previously held with the exception of El Buur, Galgaduud region, where they retook control of the town after Ethiopian and Ahlu Sunnah Waljama’a (ASWJ) troops left. The asymmetrical nature of the conflict throughout many parts of Somalia continues to have a negative impact on the civilian population.

1 . Key concerns

General

• Some families are leaving members in unsafe areas of Bara and/or are planning on returning to unsafe areas of Bara. In some instances, families appeared to believe they had no other viable option.

• Several IDPs indicated they feared retribution by insurgents in Bara for receiving humanitarian assistance. Others reported that they were under pressure including from other IDPs in the camp to return to Bara to support peace committees.

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FLOODS 2011 – EARLY RECOVERY 2012

Lack of funding severely impacts the Protection Cluster activities in relation to the 2011 Flood response. This is particularly the case for local NGOs, which are sometimes working on a voluntary basis. A number of activities continued, however, in flood-affected areas in Sindh and Balochistan.

A report on the protection risks for children as a result of the famine in South/Central Somalia

Executive Summary

The Child Protection Working Group for Somalia conducted an inter-Agency Rapid Needs Assessment to better understand the impact of the famine on children in terms of the protection risks in South/Central Somalia from September-November 2011. This assessment is intended to provide a snapshot of urgent needs on child protection issues which are outlined below along with some key recommendations:

Separated & Unaccompanied Children