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.
Must Read
Afghanistan + 2 more
Adding salt to the wound: The experience of MSF frontline workers providing impartial healthcare in counter-terrorism environments
Monday, October 18, 2021 — Twenty years after the start of the so called ‘global War on Terror’ in the wake of 9/11, the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins sans Frontières / Doctors without...
World + 16 more
Safeguarding Healthcare in Conflict: No respite - Violence against Health Care in Conflict - 2020
The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) has identified 806 reported incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in 43 countries and territories experiencing conflict in...
World + 18 more
No respite: Violence against Health Care in Conflict
Today, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition released its eighth annual report, documenting the global incidence of attacks and threats against health workers, facilities, and transport...
News
World + 18 more
La guerre dans les villes: le Conseil de sécurité débat des moyens de protéger les 50 millions de civils urbains menacés par les conflits
CS/14775 Face à des conflits armés qui se déroulent de plus en plus souvent dans des zones urbaines, et qui ont des conséquences humanitaires dévastatrices pour 50 millions de civils, le Secrétaire...
Six months on, still no responsibility established for the killing of María, Tedros and Yohannes in Tigray
Six months after the murder of our three colleagues Maria, Tedros and Yohannes, the full circumstances of, and responsibility for, their killing remains unclear. On 24 June 2021, 35-year-old María...
Attacks on health care in Sudan must stop now: Statement by Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean [EN/AR]
Cairo, Egypt, 11 January 2022 – The World Health Organization (WHO) is following with great concern the escalating crisis in Sudan, including 15 reported attacks on health care workers and health...
Evaluation & Lessons Learned
Syria + 3 more
Syria Regional Crisis Emergency Appeal Progress Report for the reporting period 1 january – 30 june 2021
Executive summary During the first half of 2021, an estimated 438,000 Palestine refugees in Syria, 28,017 Palestinian refugees from Syria (PRS) in Lebanon and 18,164 PRS in Jordan entered a more...
Child Protection Sub-Sector, North East Nigeria: Mid-Year Review Report, August 2021
The well-being of children is threatened by multiple protection risks such as child marriage, family separation, physical and sexual violence, psychosocial distress, use and recruitment by non-state...
Nigeria Child Protection Sub-Sector: Quarterly Report, January - March 2021
Introduction This report covers the period of January – March 2021 and includes the implementation of child protection activities carried within but not limited to the COVID-19 context. The report...
Maps and Infographics
Latest Updates
“Our Health Workers Are Working in Fear”: Targeted Violence against Health Care One Year after Myanmar’s Military Coup, January 2022
415 Attacks on Health Care in Myanmar During One Year of Crackdowns Following Military Coup: Report Ahead of February 1 coup anniversary, new report spotlights Myanmar armed forces’ brutal violence...
“Unacceptable” detention of MSF medical team in Khartoum
Nine Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff members were detained by the Sudanese authorities in the capital Khartoum on the evening of 24 January, before being released the following morning. At the...
World + 18 more
La guerre dans les villes: le Conseil de sécurité débat des moyens de protéger les 50 millions de civils urbains menacés par les conflits
CS/14775 Face à des conflits armés qui se déroulent de plus en plus souvent dans des zones urbaines, et qui ont des conséquences humanitaires dévastatrices pour 50 millions de civils, le Secrétaire...