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Acceptance is one of the three pillars of humanitarian organisations' security risk management (SRM) strategies to ensure both access to populations affected by conflict and disaster and the safety...

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...

INTRODUCTION Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have wreaked havoc worldwide, killing and maiming thousands, and spreading fear and disruption to affected communities. Rendering IEDs safe has...

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...

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...

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...

Rohini J. Haar, Róisín Read, Larissa Fast, Karl Blanchet, Stephanie Rinaldi, Bertrand Taithe, Christina Wille & Leonard S. Rubenstein Conflict and Health volume 15, Article number: 37 (2021) Abstract ...

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...

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...

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...

By Abby Stoddard, Paul Harvey, Monica Czwarno, Meriah-Jo Breckenridge Summary of key findings 2018 was the second worst year on record for aid worker security, with 399 aid workers affected by major...

HIGHLIGHTS Attack on international NGO vehicles in Diffa results in two deaths Deteriorating security conditions prompt additional displacement Relief agencies seek to ease severe overcrowding at...

Overview Nearly 10 million people, or half the population of the conflict-hit Lake Chad Basin region need humanitarian assistance as the decade-long conflict drags on. Some 2.5 million people are now...

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...

HIGHLIGHTS GoRC and UN project 4.3 million Cameroonians in need of humanitarian assistance in 2019 Humanitarian community launches 2019 HRP for Chad, requesting nearly $477 million USAID partners...

Background The Lake Chad Basin humanitarian emergency is among the most severe in the world. The protracted conflict has uprooted around 2.5 million people, stoked high levels of hunger and...

Executive Summary An aid worker’s personal security is impacted by the interplay between where the aid worker is, who they are, and their role and organisation. As employers, aid organisations have a...

Africa Cameroon 10 August 2018: In Bamenda city, Mezam department, Northwest province, an ambulance belonging to the Bamenda Regional Hospital was shot at by either national military personnel or...

Security Incidents and Access Constraints Africa Central African Republic 01 August 2018: In Alindao town, Basse-Kotto prefecture, unspecified assailants killed an aid worker from a local NGO. His...

Security Incidents and Access Constraints Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo 09 August 2018: In Rutshuru town, North Kivu province, militants from the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du...