Ukraine situation
- 7 million internally displaced in Ukraine (IDP) (OCHA, Ukraine Situation Report, 21 September 2022)
- 3.3 million children in need in Ukraine (UNICEF HAC as of August 23 2022)
- 17.7 million people in need in Ukraine (UNICEF HAC as of August 23 2022)
- 2.3 million children ta
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rgeted by UNICEF Response in Ukraine from March to December 2022 (UNICEF revised HAC as of October 2022)
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Понад 3500 вчителів та шкільних психологів долучилось за місяць до курсу з психологічно-емоційної підтримки «Розумію», який покликаний допомогти освітянам стабілі
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увати власний емоційний стан в умовах постійного стресу та напруги війни та надати практичні інструменти для підтримки учнівства та батьківства. Курс запущений ГС «Освіторія» за підтримки Міністерства освіти і науки України та Дитячого фонду ООН (ЮНІСЕФ).
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Der Krieg der Russischen Föderation gegen die Ukraine hat Leid und Verwüstung in einem in der Europäischen Region der WHO seit Jahrzehnten nicht gekannten Ausmaß verursacht. In der Ukraine spielt sich eine sich rasch entwickelnde humanitäre und Flüchtlingskrise ab, deren geopolitische und wirt
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schaftliche Auswirkungen in der ganzen Welt zu spüren sind, ganz zu schweigen von den schwerwiegenden Rückschlägen für die in der öffentlichen Gesundheit gemachten Fortschritte in der Ukraine, in den
Nachbarländern und in der Region.
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The 2019 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) sets out the framework within which the humanitarian community will respond to the large-scale humanitarian and protection needs in Syria throughout 2019, on the basis of the prioritization undertaken across and within sectors. The HRP, based on United Natio
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ns’ assessments and analysis, also presents urgent funding requirements to address these needs. It is anchored by three strategic objectives: saving lives and alleviating suffering, enhancing protection, and increasing resilience. These objectives are interlinked and achieving positive outcomes for affected people requires concerted action across all three.
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The risks of the use of nuclear, radiological, biological or chemical (NRBC) weapons are heterogeneous. Each risk has its own implications for developing and deploying any capacity to assist victims of an NRBC event and, in parallel, for the health and security of the people bringing this assistance
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. At an international level, there are no plans for assisting the victims of an NRBC event which are both adequate and safe. Recognizing
the realities of the contexts associated with each risk throws up numerous challenges; such recognition is also a prerequisite for addressing these challenges. The realities that have to be considered relate to:
1. developing, acquiring, training for and planning an NRBC response capacity;
2. deploying a response capacity in an NRBC event;
3. the mandates and policies of international organizations pertaining to NRBC events. The challenges that will pose the greatest difficulty for a humanitarian organization are those for which the solutions are ‘non-buyable’ and which involve making extremely difficult decisions. Attempting to assist victims of an NRBC event without a reality-based approach might generate ineffective and unacceptably dangerous situations for those involved.
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This leaflet is intended to inform physicians — mainly GPs — and medical students on how to recognize a possible radiation injury. It is important to note that radiation injury has no special signs and symptoms. However, the combination of some of them may be typical of radiation injury.
Arabic
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version available: http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/pub_meet/en/Arabicleaflet.pdf?ua=1
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Trabajar con recursos limitados en conflictos armados y otras situaciones de violencia. vol. 1
Health Workers and Health Facilities under Attack 2015, and Early 2016
Now entering its sixth year, the conflict in Syria continues to take a drastic toll on the lives of the Syrian people and to drive an unprecedented humanitarian and protection crisis: some 13.5 million people are now in need of humanitarian assistance and protection, including 6 million children. Ha
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lf of the country’s pre-crisis population has been forced from their homes, with around one third of the remaining population now displaced within Syria and over 4.8 seeking refuge in neighbouring countries and beyond.
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How 2016 became the worst year for Syria's children