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TURKIYE & NORTH-WEST SYRIA, FEBRUARY 2023 Earthquakes are gender neutral - they affect everyone in their vicinity - but their impacts are not. Gender inequality exacerbates the impact of disasters, and the impacts of disasters exacerbate gender…

War Child, the leading charity for children affected by conflict, is calling for a rapid and significant scale-up of the humanitarian response to earthquake survivors – particularly children - in north-west Syria. The charity warns that if…

Situation On Monday 6th February 2023, southeast Türkiye was hit by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake at 04:17 local time, the most powerful to strike the country since 1939. The epicentre was near Ataler in Gaziantep Province. More…

The number of casualties continues to increase following the two earthquakes of 7.8 M in Pazarcik and of 7.5 M in Elbistan Districts occurred on 6 February. As of 16 February, 3,170 aftershocks have been recorded…

In Numbers 480,000 earthquake affected people in Syria and Türkiye assisted with WFP life-saving food assistance 324,000 Turkish citizens and Syrian refugees are receiving family food packages in camps and hot meals in municipal community kitchens in Türkiye 156,000…

Situation Overview More than 100 trucks loaded with UN aid have crossed into north-west Syria since the cross-border aid operation resumed on February 9. Aid ranged from tents, blankets to heaters as well as food, medicines and…

International Blue Crescent Relief and Development Foundation would like to extend our sincere condolences to all those affected by the earthquakes last week. IBC employees in the region are safe and accounted for, though some have…

Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes. DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF SYRIA EARTHQUAKE EXACERBATED BY LEGACY…

Chances Of Survival Are Shrinking With Every Minute On February 6, 2023, at dawn, a strong earthquake hit southern Turkey and northern Syria with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale, resulting in thousands of casualties…

Critical maternal health services and other programmes for women and girls in north and northwest Syria “have had to scale up massively” following the deadly earthquake last week, a senior official with the UN Population Fund…