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World

Achieving Safe Operations through Acceptance: Challenges and opportunities for security risk management

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...

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Analysis
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  • GISF
Posted
9 Feb 2022
Originally published
9 Feb 2022

Myanmar

“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...

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  • Insecurity Insight
  • Johns Hopkins Univ.
  • Physicians for Human Rights
Posted
26 Jan 2022
Originally published
26 Jan 2022

World

The Challenge IEDs Pose for the Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) Sector

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...

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Analysis
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  • AOAV
Posted
19 Oct 2021
Originally published
19 Oct 2021

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...

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Analysis
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  • MSF
Posted
18 Oct 2021
Originally published
18 Oct 2021

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...

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Analysis
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  • Insecurity Insight
Posted
16 Jun 2021
Originally published
16 Jun 2021

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...

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Analysis
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  • Safeguarding Health in Conflict
Posted
24 May 2021
Originally published
24 May 2021

World

Violence against healthcare in conflict: a systematic review of the literature and agenda for future research

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 ...

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  • BioMed Central
Posted
10 May 2021
Originally published
7 May 2021

World

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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  • ELRHA
  • ICRC
Posted
1 Jul 2020
Originally published
1 Jul 2020

World + 12 more

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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Evaluation and Lessons Learned
Source
  • UNFPA
Posted
25 Jun 2020
Originally published
24 Jun 2020

World + 20 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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Analysis
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  • Insecurity Insight
  • Safeguarding Health in Conflict
Posted
10 Jun 2020
Originally published
10 Jun 2020

World + 5 more

Aid Worker Security Report 2019 - Speakable: Addressing sexual violence and gender-based risk in humanitarian aid

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...

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Analysis
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  • Humanitarian Outcomes
Posted
17 Jul 2019
Originally published
24 Jun 2019

Nigeria + 5 more

Lake Chad Basin - Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #5, Fiscal Year (FY) 2019

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...

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Situation Report
Source
  • USAID
Posted
24 Jun 2019
Originally published
24 Jun 2019

Nigeria + 3 more

Lake Chad Basin: Crisis Update (June 2019)

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...

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Situation Report
Source
  • OCHA
Posted
3 Jun 2019
Originally published
3 Jun 2019

World + 23 more

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...

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Analysis
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  • Safeguarding Health in Conflict
Posted
15 May 2019
Originally published
15 May 2019

Nigeria + 5 more

Lake Chad Basin - Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #4, Fiscal Year (FY) 2019

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...

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Situation Report
Source
  • USAID
Posted
13 Mar 2019
Originally published
13 Mar 2019

Nigeria + 3 more

Lake Chad Basin: Crisis Overview (as of 23 January 2019)

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...

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Infographic
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  • OCHA
Posted
28 Jan 2019
Originally published
23 Jan 2019

World + 4 more

Managing the Security of Aid Workers with Diverse Profiles

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...

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Analysis
Source
  • GISF
Posted
9 Oct 2018
Originally published
20 Sep 2018

World + 17 more

Safeguarding Healthcare Monthly News Brief, August 2018

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...

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Situation Report
Source
  • Insecurity Insight
Posted
18 Sep 2018
Originally published
31 Aug 2018

World + 17 more

The Aid in Danger Monthly News Brief - August 2018

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...

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Situation Report
Source
  • Insecurity Insight
Posted
13 Sep 2018
Originally published
31 Aug 2018

World + 13 more

Protection in Danger Monthly News Brief - August 2018

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...

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Situation Report
Source
  • Insecurity Insight
Posted
11 Sep 2018
Originally published
31 Aug 2018

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