Reports

Sarah K. Chynoweth, Dale Buscher, Sarah Martin and Anthony B. Zwi Conflict and Health volume 14, Article number: 43 (2020) Abstract Background Post-sexual violence service utilization is often poor in humanitarian settings. Little is known about the service uptake barriers…

What is ISAF? Social accountability can be defined as an approach towards building accountability that relies on civic engagement, i.e., in which it is ordinary citizens and/or civil society organizations who participate directly or indirectly in exacting…

Convictions Obscure Widespread Military Impunity (Bangkok) – Myanmar’s court-martial conviction of three military personnel for crimes against ethnic Rohingya reflects ongoing government efforts to evade meaningful accountability, Human Rights Watch said today. Myanmar authorities have repeatedly failed…

TULUNAN, NORTH COTABATO, The Philippines --- The rainy season has come again, and for "Sarah" (not her real name), a single mother in her late 20s from Tulunan, it only brings back bitter memories. Keeping…

1. Introduction Background: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) by Humanitarian Workers directly contradicts the core values of humanitarian action and is a protection failure on the part of the aid and humanitarian community. SEA inflicts harm on…

Save the Children Philippines urges all public and private schools to act on the mounting complaints of sexual harassment and other forms of abuse and violence reportedly committed by faculty and school personnel against their students. Atty.…

Reports of older people facing: • rising abuse in some countries during coronavirus crisis • robberies, kidnapping and domestic violence • being left to die when suffering from COVID-19 COVID-19 has amplified the violence, abuse, and neglect of older people…

In a horrifying escalation of police human rights violations at the Croatian border with Bosnia, a group of migrants and asylum seekers was recently bound, brutally beaten and tortured by officers who mocked their injuries and…

SG/SM/20097 Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Security Council open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, in New York today: I thank the Government of Estonia for convening this debate on the…

Overview Despite of the preventive measures applied by both the national and sub-national government, there is still mounting public anxiety over the effectiveness of adapting those measures, reliability of information that people received, and if concerned agencies…