OVERVIEW The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) identified 24 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in South Sudan in 2022, a similar number to 29 recorded in...
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Ignoring red lines: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict 2022
2022 Marks Most Violent Year Against Health Workers and Facilities in Conflicts in the Last Decade: Report A new report published by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) documents...
South Sudan: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict 2021
On June 7, 2021 armed herdsmen ambushed a health vehicle and killed two South Sudanese health workers as they returned from a health facility in South Sudan’s Lakes state. OVERVIEW The Safeguarding...
Myanmar + 47 more
Unrelenting Violence: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict 2021
Letter from the Chair During the past 18 months the list of health care systems that have been destroyed or severely compromised by war-related violence lengthened. Three-quarters of the health...
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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...
DR Congo + 19 more
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...
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Impunity Remains: Attacks on Health Care in 23 Countries in Conflict in 2018
Washington, May 15, 2019 – There were at least 973 attacks on health workers, health facilities, health transports and patients in 23 countries in conflict in 2018, the Safeguarding Health in...
Syria + 22 more
Violence on the front line: Attacks on Health Care in 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 2017, there were at least 701 attacks on hospitals, health workers, patients, and ambulances in 23 countries in conflict around the world. More than 101 health workers and 293...
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Impunity Must End: Attacks on Health in 23 Countries in Conflict in 2016
Executive Summary In 2016, attacks on—or interference with—health care occurred in 23 countries in conflict or experiencing political unrest around the world. The sheer number of countries and the...
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No Protection, No Respect: Health Workers and Health Facilities Under Attack: 2015 and Early 2016
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY International law dating back more than 150 years holds that in all armed conflicts, whether internal or international, parties must not attack or interfere with health workers,...
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Under Attack: Violence against health workers, patients and facilities
Health Workers, Patients Under Attack Expand Monitoring, Strengthen Protections (Geneva) – Hundreds of attacks on health workers have occurred in dozens of countries around the world since 2012,...