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This Bi-Monthly News Brief comprises threats and violence as well as protests and other events affecting the delivery of and access to health care.
The Risk Sharing Platform, co-led by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ICRC, and InterAction, was established in 2021. It aims to improve the way organizations share risk and better support affected people. The platform developed a Risk Sharing…
These Guidelines are designed to assist staff in non-governmental organisations (NGOs) who conduct and manage investigations into sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) of people of concern by humanitarian staff. https://www.interaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/icva-saferguidelines-feb07.pdf
This brief highlights viral allegations – viewed by at least 144,000 social media users – claiming that the UN is part of an operation to hand over Syrian dissidents and refugees to the regime in Damascus. A review of the…
This comprehensive report released by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) documents instances of various attacks and threats in 2022 targeting healthcare facilities and personnel across 32 countries engulfed in armed conflict and political violence.
The Conflict Sensitivity Facility (CSF) released the following working paper, Making sense of ‘localisation’ in Sudan, it identifies and explores themes that are relevant to aid’s conflict sensitivity. Please note that this paper was written before conflict erupted in Sudan on…
The GISF Snapshot Annual Report January – December 2022 features some of GISF’s highlights of 2022 and serves to inform members, donors and stakeholders of the impact GISF has had on NGO security management during the reporting period. This is…
This report looks at examples of conflict events that have affected aid access and humanitarian efforts to address food insecurity in Ethiopia. It highlights how disinformation campaigns can undermine aid agencies’ humanitarian principles and how the increasing use of remotely…
Signal Alert is an occasional publication of the Aid Security Database to inform the humanitarian sector of a statistically significant trend, change, or outlier detected in the security environment for aid operations.
Despite instances of women advancing to senior positions within the security field, by both traditional (second careers following time spent in the military, police or intelligence services) and non-traditional routes, at the global level women are under-represented within the security…