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Safety and quality of water use and reuse in the production and processing of dairy products: meeting report

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

At its 48th session of Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH), the Committee noted the importance of water quality and safety in food production and processing. CCFH requested the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide guidan... more

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PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF BIOETHICS : CASE - STUDIES IN WOMEN’S HEALTH

By the Committee on Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction and Women's Health, International Federation of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians (FIGO) (2012)

This curriculum can be used freely in order to stimulate means of ethical analysis, reflection and decision-making.

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Aide-mémoire for the consideration of issues pertaining to the protection of civilians in armed conflict

OCHA (2011)

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Participation handbook for humanitarian field workers - Involving crisis-affected people in a humanitarian response

ALNAP, Groupe URD - Groupe Urgence Rehabilitation Developpement (2009)

The Participation Handbook for humanitarian field workers contains detailed practical advice on the participation of affected people in humanitarian action. It has three sections: Developing a participatory approach (main issues, key factors, building mutual respect, communication methods and... more

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The Anti-Ebola Regulation Liberia

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Liberia; (2014)

Regulations by the Minister of Health (the “Minister”) Governing The Control and Abatement of the Spread and Eradication of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Liberia, hereinafter

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Failure to Protect: Syria and the UN Security Council

Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (2015)

“We Can Die Too”: Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers in South Sudan

Human Rights Watch (2015) C1

The 65-page report names more than 15 commanders and officials from both the government Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and the rebel SPLA-in Opposition and their allies who have used child soldiers. The report is based on interviews with 101 child soldiers who were either forcibly recruited... more

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WHO guidelines on the management of health complications from female genital mutilation
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World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

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Preventing and responding to gender-based violence in humanitarian crises

Rebecca Holmes; Dharini Bhuvanendra Humanitarian Practice Network at ODI (2014) C3

The aim of this paper is to map and critically analyse evidence of good practice in prevention and response to gender-based violence (GBV) in humanitarian contexts which can support humanitarian practitioners and policy makers to improve the quality of GBV programming in the field. The paper is stru... more

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Challenging disadvantage in Zambia: People with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in the criminal justice system

The PAN, the Mental Health Users Network Zambia (MHUNZA), the Prisons Care and Counselling Association (PRISCCA), et al. Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) (2015) C1

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Protecting Humanitarian Action: Key Challenges and Lessons from the Field

Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action ATHA Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (2016) C1

The first section highlights knowledge and questions regarding security incidents, trends, and causes of violence, including around causes and motives for attacks, and tensions between individual and collective responses. The next section then explores the role of the humanitarian principles, and th... more