Protection and Human Rights

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UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report 2010 Mid-Year Review

As the 2010 Humanitarian Action Report (HAR) was going to press in January, Haiti was struck by the strongest earthquake it had experienced in more than two centuries. Already the poorest country in the western hemisphere, Haiti was left reeling with more than 3 million people affected, 220,000 dead and some 1.2 million homeless. Just weeks after, a catastrophic 8.8-magnitude earthquake shook Chile on 27 February, affecting more than two million people, making 370,000 houses unliveable, and destroying thousands of schools. Most recently, more than
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WHO Technical Consultation on Postpartum and Postnatal Care

The period soon after childbirth poses substantial health risks for both mother and newborn infant. Yet the postpartum and postnatal period receives less attention from health care providers than pregnancy and childbirth. Models of postpartum and postnatal care have changed little since first developed a century ago.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is in the process of revising and updating its guidance on postpartum and postnatal care delivered by skilled providers. The purposes of revision are to encourage and support broader provision of care and to foster a
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Packages of Interventions for Family Planning, Safe Abortion care, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality are major public health concerns in most developing countries and in under resourced settings. WHO estimates that every year approximately 8 million women endure pregnancy-related complications and around half a million die as a result. Almost 9 million children die every year, of which 4 million newborn babies die within the first month of life. In addition, 3.3 million babies are born dead.

The evidence shows that high maternal, perinatal, neonatal and child mortality rates are associated with inadequate
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The Humanitarian's Dilemma: collective action or inaction in international relief?

Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti in January of this year and the intense media coverage of the subsequent aid operations, the UK's The Lancet journal published an editorial entitled 'The growth of aid and the decline of humanitarianism'. The piece described aid agencies as:

'...highly competitive with each other. Polluted by the internal power politics and the unsavoury characteristics seen in many big corporations, large aid agencies can be obsessed with raising money through their own appeal efforts. Media coverage as an end
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The United Nations Mine Action Service Annual Report 2009

Around the world, mine action programmes made significant progress in 2009. Some of the highlights
are summarized here. In Afghanistan, an extremely challenging operating environment included rising
criminality and insurgency, and attacks on a UN compound that necessitated temporary staff relocations.
Operations were not affected, however, as the programme there has grown resilient and flexible over its 20-year history. A community-based approach employed for mine clearance, community empowerment,
sustainable development and stabilization
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Children and Truth Commissions

Children are caught in the crossfire of modern warfare. They are also targeted for recruitment by armed forces and groups, raped, tortured and held in slave-like conditions. In some cases children have been victims of systematic and widespread violations, including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Thousands of children are killed and wounded every year as a direct result of fighting, but many more suffer the indirect effects of conflict - malnutrition and disease, halted education and a general breakdown in systems of social
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In Everyone's Interest: Recording All The Dead, Not Just Our Own

There is growing interest in civilian casualties from war zones. Each week in the news, it seems, stories emerge from Afghanistan of civilians killed in the fighting; each report seems to be clouded by claim and counter-claim as to how many were killed and who was responsible. On 1 April this year, the American Civil Liberties Union made public over 13,000 pages of US Government data on reports of civilians killed or injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. Towards the back of the Summer 2009 edition of British Army Review1 there was an article specifically describing innovative
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Somalia + 1 other
CrisisWatch N°84, 01 Aug 2010

Brussels | 1 Aug 2010

Two actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and one improved in July 2010, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group's monthly bulletin CrisisWatch released today.

In Somalia militant Islamist group al-Shabaab demonstrated for the first time its capability to spread conflict and bloodshed more widely across the region by launching suicide bomb attacks on Kampala, Uganda that killed at least 85 people. The bombings came after explicit warnings by al-Shabaab that they would take revenge on Uganda and Burundi

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Sudan: Celebrating the entry into force of the Convention on Cluster Munitions

Leonie Barnes, acting Programme Manager of the United Nations Mine Action Office (UNMAO) in Sudan thanked everyone for the invitation to the event celebrating the entry into force of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, held at the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs today, 1 August 2010.

She mentioned that, since the beginning of the programme, approximately 78% of the reported 6,250 dangerous areas have been verified or cleared and over 38,914 km of high priority routes have been opened. Furthermore, the sector has educated 3.18 million civilians

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UNMIS SUDAN RCSO, HERR and RRR Section - Joint Weekly Report: 26 July - 1 August 2010

Northern Sudan

Khartoum

- During the week ending 29 July, the ADRA-IOM in Kosti tracked at total of 105 individuals transiting through this major hub in spontaneous movements to destinations mainly in Southern Kordofan (36%), Unity (32%), Upper Nile (20%) and Central Equatoria (10%). Return movements over the past two weeks have revealed small numbers that represent a significant decrease since heavy rains have begun falling in the north. At the close of the period, a total of 52 individuals were at the wharf in Kosti awaiting southbound transport to Juba.

Abyei

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Burundi + 9 others
Refugee protection and international migration: A review of UNHCR's role in Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa

Executive summary

This review examines the response of UNHCR and other stakeholders to three distinct but interrelated mixed migratory movements that are currently taking place to and within southern Africa. First, a movement of people from the Horn of Africa to South Africa, generally transiting through Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and, to some extent, Zimbabwe; second, a movement of people from the Great Lakes region of Africa (Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda) to South Africa, a proportion of whom are also taking up residence in Malawi and Mozambique;

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Pakistan: Commission provides €30 million to address humanitarian needs

IP/10/1018

Brussels, 31 July 2010

The European Commission has adopted a €30 humanitarian aid decision to assist the most vulnerable people in Pakistan in urgent need of help. The main beneficiaries are the conflict-affected people, including internally displaced persons (IDP), people who are returning to their homes but have lost their livelihoods and sometimes also their houses, as well as host families whose capacities have been overstretched by months of hosting IDPs. The aid decision takes immediate effect. Pakistan

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A REPORT OF THE PAKISTAN RED CRESCENT SOCIETY'S RESPONSE TO THE MONSOON FLOODS SITUATION JULY 2010

MONSOON FLOODS SITUATION IN PAKISTAN

End of June marked the beginning of the Monsoon season in Pakistan with rains in the areas of Azad Jammu and Kashmir(AJK), Northern parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPk) and the upper Punjab. The second spell of monsoon rains resulted in extensive flash flooding which proved devastating for the whole country and caused widespread damage especially in KPk, Punjab and Baluchistan. Hundreds of causalities have been reported from the area, as due to heavy floods and damage to infrastructure, hundreds

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Iraq: Kurdistan Regional Government Mine Action Agency The Deminer Post June-July 2010

IKMAA conducts a summer school project

Ako Aziz Hamad*

With the financial support of UNICEF the Mine Risk Education directorate of Iraqi Kurdistan Mine Action Agency started implementing a summer school project in two highly mine affected villages: Shewarash in Choman district in Erbil governorate and Barchi in Amedi district in Duhok governorate.

The project started on 15th of July and will take 22 days. 260 children from four villages (Shewarash, Saidawa, Haji Omaran and Barchi) are participating in the training courses.

The aim of the project is raising mine

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Deadly Movements Transportation Controls In The Arms Trade Treaty

1/INTRODUCTION

Effective regulation of the global trade in conventional arms must include adequate provisions to control the physical movement of arms across international borders. The proposed Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) should be designed to prevent unauthorised or irresponsible international transfers of weapons, munitions and related equipment internationally: it must therefore require states to impose effective controls and reporting requirements on the transport and transporters of arms, including through Free Trade Zones. Without such requirements, the ATT will fail to address

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Myanmar: Post-Nargis Periodic Review lV

E XECUTIVE SUMMARY

Two years after Cyclone Nargis struck the Ayeyarwady and Yangon Divisions of Myanmar, sweeping across over 50 townships and hitting Yangon, the country's Review (PR IV) examines the status of households in the most affected area.

In this context, PR IV details the present status of households and the progress or lack of progress made by the households towards recovery. Where information allows, this assessment compares the current situation to that before the Cyclone. The assessment relies on the responses of 1,400 sampled households living in the most devastated