Appeal will focus on assisting those affected by seasonal floods, drought, chronic food insecurity, population movement and epidemics such as yellow fever, malaria and cholera.

In April 2013 CBM, together with Association of the Physically Disabled of Kenya (APDK) and Kenya Red Cross (KRC), launched the ‘Baseline Survey Report 2012’ which assesses the impact and gaps of disaster and emergency on person with disability in northern Kenya. The findings from the baseline survey, the first of its kind, shall inform future CBM response and commitment in mainstreaming disability within KRC relief activities and other strategic mainstream humanitarian organisations in times of emergencies and post emergencies.

08-05-2013 Communiqué de presse 13/87Niamey (CICR) – À l'occasion de la célébration du 150e anniversaire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR), la délégation régionale du CICR pour le Niger et le Mali a donné 12 fauteuils roulants à la Fédération nigérienne des sports paralympiques (FENISPHA).

Handicap International has launched a regional project to prevent sexual violence against children with disabilities in Burundi, Rwanda and Kenya. The organisation decided to take action after learning that children with disabilities are 3 to 4 times more likely to be affected by physical and sexual violence than children without disabilities.

Background

On 15 March 2013, violent clashes began between militant groups in the Tirah valley, largely in the Khyber Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, precipitating large-scale displacement of the local population. Most fled in one of three directions: towards the Peshawar Valley, Kohat/Hangu or Kurram Agency.

Lunes, 29 de Abril de 2013 21:11 Yhoban Camilo Hernandez

Para el mes de mayo espera la Subdirección de Participación de la Unidad Nacional de Atención y Reparación a Víctimas, esté firmado el protocolo de participación efectiva de las víctimas. Ese mismo mes habría un periodo de socialización y a mediados de junio estarían instaladas las mesas municipales, departamentales y nacional de participación.

CAMP DE REFUGIES DE BWAGIRIZA, Burundi, 24 avril (HCR) – Tout au début, la réfugiée congolaise Wivine Bahati Mulemaz éprouvait un sentiment d'appréhension sur le programme de vérification des documents d'identité des réfugiés, mené par le HCR et les autorités burundaises dans ce camp de l'est du Burundi.

News

• 18 young Libyan girls and boys participated in firstever OneMinutesJr video workshop in Tripoli 23-27 January 2013.

• On 28 February the Ministry of Education and UNICEF launched the nation-wide school assessment report in Tripoli.

• UNICEF conducted a session for youth to express their views on the constitution process.

• As part of the EU-funded education programme,
UNICEF and the Ministry of Education signed an agreement on a roadmap to improve teacher management.