Informes

"Someone who has studied compared to someone who has not studied is like darkness to light." -- Aza, age 35, Mile Refugee Camp, Chad The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children visited ten of the eleven refugee camps…

CHAD Security Deterioration There is an overall security deterioration in Eastern Chad, with some reports of an increased proliferation of weapons particularly around the border area. Reports from the border area indicate that cattle theft and other criminal acts appear on…

The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over 181 countries. In Brief Appeal…

"This is the most dramatic race against the clock that we have anywhere in the world at the moment, if we lose, hundreds of thousands of women and children, mostly, will perish, " warns U.N. Emergency Coordinator Jan Egeland…

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Jennifer Pagonis - to whom quoted text may be attributed at the press briefing, on 5 October 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Over the weekend, UNHCR…

SUDAN DARFUR CRISIS Events: A team commissioned by the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs/Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland, and the UN/NGO consortium, Inter-Agency Standing Committee, is currently travelling to Darfur to conduct a "real-time" evaluation aimed at strengthening the…

SUDANDARFUR CRISIS Events: Hepatitis E continues to be a significant health threat in Darfur. Between 22 May and 27 August, 3,753 cases1 and 55 deaths of suspected Hepatitis E were reported from all reporting health clinics in Darfur…

Introduction Since early 2003, the conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan has provoked an outflow of some 200,000 refugees to eastern Chad and caused over one million persons to be internally displaced in Darfur. Armed attacks by Janjaweed…

Executive summary The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children (Women's Commission) conducted an assessment of the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) of reproductive health services among Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad from April…

As Christian Children's Fund (CCF) workers talk to Sudanese children who have fled to refugee camps in Chad, the emergency response team finds that the older children seem to always ask the same question. First, the children talk about…