Hundreds of thousands of refugees are at risk of being pushed to return to Syria in 2018, despite ongoing violence, bombing and shelling that are endangering the lives of civilians, leading humanitarian agencies warn in a report released today. The warning comes amid a global anti-refugee backlash, ...harsher conditions in neighbouring countries hosting Syrians, and Syrian government victories in the conflict that have fuelled misleading rhetoric suggesting Syria is safe for refugees to return.
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Action on behalf of unaccompanied and separated children should be guided by principles enshrined in international standards. The validity of these principles has been confirmed by experience and lessons learnt from conflicts and natural disasters in recent years. The objective of the present public...ation is to outline the guiding principles which form the basis for action in this regard.
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2014-15 Tanzania Service Provision Assessment Survey (TSPA)
2006-07 Swaziland Demographic and Health Survey
DHS Working Papers No. 110 | Zimbabwe Working Papers No. 11
Application for Program Design in the Europe and Eurasia Region
Sexual violence is a major problem in South Africa, with studies showing that up to one in four women have been raped in their lifetime.
An introduction to 90-90-90 in South Africa
Public Health Action PHA 2017; 7(2): 110–115
A community-based approach.
These guidelines focus on manmade rather than natural disasters, but our experiences in India, El Salvador and Pakistan (earthquake interventions), and following the 2004 tsunami, cyclone Nargis in 2008 and the Haiti earthquake in 2010, showed that the principles describ...ed also work well in contexts of natural disasters.
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