Safety & Security
Introduction
This page brings together the most relevant information on aid worker safety and security from ReliefWeb's extensive collection of humanitarian content. The two main columns show substantive reports such as safety manuals and guidelines, statistical reports on security incidents involving aid workers, and analysis of the implications of engaging with private security providers and the role of peacekeepers in humanitarian interventions.
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Researching Violence Against Health Care: Gaps and Priorities
Our Researching Violence Against Health Care: Gaps and Priorities report identifies key evidence gaps that need to be filled through rigorous research if we are to identify solutions to prevent and...
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Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Adolescent Health During Pandemics: Lessons Learned for Practical Guidance
Executive summary This report is a review of major epidemics since 2003, including SARS-CoV, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Zika and MERS-CoV. Often, responses to such outbreaks have had a negative impact on...
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Health workers at risk: Violence against health care
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition identified more than 1,203 reported incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in 20 countries and...
News
Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Ad Interim, Ramesh Rajasingham, Briefing to the Security Council on the Humanitarian Situation in Syria, 25 November 2020
as delivered New York, 25 November 2020 Thank you, Madam President. I will focus today on five areas: first, the situation of displaced people across Syria as winter approaches; second, the...
Somalia: Ensure Justice in Health Worker Massacre [EN/SO]
Boost Stalled Investigation into Killing of 8 in Rural Village (Nairobi) -- Authorities in Somalia should intensify their investigation into the abduction and apparent summary execution of seven...
Le Coordonnateur humanitaire rappelle l’urgence de protéger les travailleurs humanitaires
Kinshasa, 6 novembre 2020 – Le Coordonnateur humanitaire en République démocratique du Congo (RDC), David McLachlan-Karr, condamne fermement les récentes attaques contre les travailleurs...
Evaluation & Lessons Learned
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Afghanistan: Humanitarian Response Plan 2018-2021 (2020 Mid-Year Monitoring Report)
Part IOverview Summary After 40 years of war, annual natural disasters and persistent poverty, the people of Afghanistan have been dealt another deadly blow from COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic has...
2019 Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan - End of Year Report (June 2020) [EN/AR]
INTRODUCTION In 2019, Yemen remained the world’s worst humanitarian crisis with 24 million people or 80 per cent of the population in need of some form of assistance. Humanitarian partners managed...
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La santé reproductive, maternelle, néonatale et adolescente en temps de pandémie: Leçons apprises et conseils pratiques
Résumé Le présent rapport passe en revue les principales épidémies survenues depuis 2003, dont le SRAS-CoV, le VIH/sida, et les virus Ebola, Zika et MERS-CoV. Les réponses à ces épidémies ont souvent...
Maps and Infographics
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Aid in Danger Bi-Weekly News Brief, 04 - 17 November 2020
Africa Central African Republic 08 November 2020: In Batangafo town, Ouham prefecture, anti-Balaka militants reportedly broke into the home of an INGO national aid worker and attempted to kidnap him...
Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Ad Interim, Ramesh Rajasingham, Briefing to the Security Council on the Humanitarian Situation in Syria, 25 November 2020
as delivered New York, 25 November 2020 Thank you, Madam President. I will focus today on five areas: first, the situation of displaced people across Syria as winter approaches; second, the...
Libya: Health Sector Flash Update | Monitoring violence against healthcare (November 20, 2020)
Location: Al Qatrun municipality, Murzuq district HF Name & Type: Albakhi PHC Attack type: Arson, dental clinic inside Al Bakhy PHC Incident: Reported attack on Al Bakhy PHC, Friday 20th of November...