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The mission of Protection Cluster is to ensure well-coordinated, effective, and principled preparedness actions and responses, and that protection is at the core of all humanitarian actions and recognized as essential in any nexus with development and peace action to achieve solutions.
Through such coordination, people are better protected in humanitarian crises and their rights respected and solutions found in accordance with international law.
The protection cluster is led by UNHCR and includes ‘areas of responsibilities' that are attributed to UNFPA for gender-based violence (GBV), to UNICEF for child protection, to UNMAS for mine action, and to NRC and UN-Habitat for housing, land and property (HLP).
Recognizing that protection is central to the purpose of any humanitarian response, the protection cluster advises and provides continuous analyses of protection risks to the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) and HCT, and works with all clusters to strengthen protection and rights-based responses.