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The IRC and the Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security's briefing highlights the disadvantages displaced women and girls face in terms of their justice, inclusion and safety and calling...

Abstract This report reviews the evidence that offering specific interventions (over and above mental health services provided through a national health system) can improve the mental health and...

BACKGROUND The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Gender Standby Capacity Project (GenCap) is managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in...

INTRODUCTION In conflicts and atrocities across the globe, from Iraq to Colombia, armed actors have perpetrated gender-based crimes amounting to persecution as a crime against humanity in an effort...

BACKGROUND In October 2021, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) endorsed its biennium Strategic Priorities (SP) for 2022-2023, namely, to collectively improve operational response...

Date limite pour soumission des propositions de projet : 2 septembre 2021 à 23h45 (heure de Kinshasa) SECTION 1 : CONTEXTE HUMANITAIRE Le territoire de Beni dans la province du Nord-Kivu demeure...

From an FGM survivor to a practitioner to now an advocate working to eliminate the practice in her community, Priscilla Nanagiro is among 60 community activists working with a UN Women programme...

Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes. THE...

HIGHLIGHTS An estimated 2.4 million people, including 912,000 children, will need humanitarian assistance due to the devastating impact of Super Typhoon Rai. Overnight, thousands of families lost...

Background The Agency’s Gender Equality Strategy (GES) 2016-2021 is based on the Agency’s 2007 Gender Equality Policy. It builds on the first Gender Mainstreaming Strategy 2008-2015 and is aligned...

BY ELMA JENKINS | NOV 29, 2021 | The data challenges of mapping funding flows to WEE Introduction Reading a diversity of sources can provide a more complete picture on a topic. For example, piecing...

BACKGROUND The IASC Guidance on the Centrality of Protection affirms that protection is at the heart of humanitarian response and it has been widely acknowledged that Ukraine is a protection-driven...

Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes. THE...

In Afghanistan, 24.4 million people – roughly the population of Australia – are in need of humanitarian assistance. Millions of Afghans have no idea where their next meal will come from. The deadly...

Urgently Strengthen Protection, Assistance, Inclusion (New York) - Children with disabilities often face increased risk of harm during armed conflict and crises, Human Rights Watch said today. The...

2 February 2022, Baghdad – The Ministry of Health in Iraq, together with the World Health Organization (WHO), launched the first gender-based violence strategic plan, 2022–2026, on 31 January 2022...

Exposure to disaster risk is often dictated by social constructs such as gender, class, race, sexual orientation, etc. The overlap and interconnectedness of these constructs is known as...

Consejo de Derechos Humanos 49º período de sesiones 28 de febrero a 1 de abril de 2022 Temas 2 y 3 de la agenda Informe anual del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos e...