Archive for the ‘Humanitarian’ Category
What to do and what not to do in Haiti….
Tuesday, October 18th, 2016“….When UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon touched down in Haiti Saturday for a one-day visit, he faced two immediate challenges and one longer-term dilemma.
First…..generate more international aid.
Second……allay the frustrations of local Haitians, who complain of a slow emergency response……..
His long-term challenge, however, may be his toughest – and one he shares with other public and private aid groups: How to help Haiti rebuild while avoiding the pitfalls that have dogged the international development push in the wake of a devastating 2010 earthquake. Billions of dollars were spent and yet, six years later, many Haitians were still living in tents……..”
There are 193 countries in the world and 21 million refugees. More than half of these refugees – nearly 12 million people –are living in just 10 of these 193 countries.
Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
Doctors Without Borders announced on Thursday that it would evacuate its staff from six hospitals in northern Yemen because it could not get assurances that its hospitals would not be bombed again.
Monday, August 22nd, 2016The 15 doctors serving the 300,000 people still living in eastern Aleppo urge Obama to create a permanent lifeline to bring in urgently needed medical supplies.
Thursday, August 11th, 2016“At a minimum, the U.N. requires a full-fledged cease-fire or weekly 48-hour humanitarian pauses to reach the millions of people in need throughout Aleppo and replenish the food and medicine stocks, which are running dangerously low.”
Wednesday, August 10th, 2016“….Two million people in the contested Syrian city of Aleppo lack access to running water because of escalated fighting…”
South Sudan: At Juba’s sprawling displacement camp on the outskirts of the capital, women risk starvation and/or sexual assault.
Friday, August 5th, 2016Syrian Refugees: Humanitarian Crisis in the Turkish Camps
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016| Refugees of the Syrian Civil War: Impact on Reemerging Infections, Health Services, and Biosecurity in Turkey | ||
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Health Security, Vol. 14, No. 4, August 2016: 220-225.
“…..By March 2016, the United Nations reported that 13.5 million Syrians required humanitarian assistance, including 6.6 million internally displaced persons and more than 4.8 million refugees outside of Syria. Turkey is currently hosting the largest number of Syrian refugees—more than 2.7 million. A limited number of refugees are living in camps settled around the border, and others are spread throughout Turkey. This explosive and unexpected increase in the Syrian population in Turkey has had several negative impacts on health and social determinants. The overload of healthcare facilities has led to shortages in childhood immunization programs, drugs, and access to clean water and food supplies. According to Ministry of Health data, more than 7.5 million Syrians were examined at outpatient clinics, and 299,240 were hospitalized; most of those hospitalized were injured and wounded victims who require and have been occupying intensive care units. The refugees generally live in crowded and unsanitary conditions, which may lead to the spread of respiratory, skin, gastrointestinal, and genital system infections. Currently, measles, poliomyelitis, leishmaniasis, and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis are the reemerging infections being most frequently recorded. Multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacterial infections seem to be an increasing problem in gunshot or surgical wounds. Hepatitis A, malaria, and varicella have been seen with a high incidence among the refugees. There are many problems waiting to be resolved for health and living standards in Turkey…..” |
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Human rights groups accuse Australia of deliberately ignoring the alleged abuse of asylum seekers being held at a remote Pacific island detention facility
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016
Over the past few years, there’s been a sharp increase in the number of aid workers being targeted for kidnap and ransom.
Tuesday, July 26th, 2016Aid Worker Security Database: The Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD) records major incidents of violence against aid workers, with incident reports from 1997 through the present.
Aid Worker Security Report (2015)
In 2014, 329 aid workers were victims of major attacks. 121 killed. 88 wounded. 120 kidnapped.
“…Kidnappings have again surpassed shootings as the most common means of violence affecting aid workers. As in past years, most kidnap victims were national staff of aid projects in Afghanistan, and were released following intervention by community elders. The estimated number of humanitarian aid workers in 2013 was 450,000, yielding a global attack rate of 10.5 victims per 10,000 in the field. Although the estimated number of aid workers has not yet been calculated for 2014, it is not expected to drop significantly (given humanitarian funding trends, it is more likely to increase). This means that attack rates will have reduced in 2014 along with absolute numbers.
In 2014, the five contexts with the greatest number of attacks on aid workers were Afghanistan, Syria, South Sudan, Central African Republic and Pakistan…..”
