Rapports

When a disaster strikes, the priority for humanitarian organisations is to bring aid to those affected. But as the following story from the Philippines shows, education on quality and accountability delivered amid relief efforts is actually…

In the face of large scale, rapid onset crises, humanitarian response is designed to quickly provide lifesaving goods and services. The focus on speed, combined with scaling up operations, does however often come together with risk…

Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) left a track of massive destruction and desolation behind, the scale of which is unprecedented in the Philippines. It has led to a large national, regional, and international response, including…

By ALEX BOOKBINDER Officials in charge of implementing a €10 million police reform project in Burma reached out to local media in Rangoon on Friday in an attempt to explain some of the project’s aims. The 18-month-long pilot…

Executive Summary Four years since the end of the armed conflict, the situation of minority women in the north and east of Sri Lanka has changed dramatically – and for many it is getting worse. In the…

COLOMBO, 22 October 2013 (IRIN) - A UK-rights group has accused the Sri Lankan government of failing to address the marginalization and sexual abuse of women living in the country’s former war zones in the north…

Human Rights Council Twenty-fourth session Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General 1. On behalf of the High Commissioner for Human…

KABUL — In a hidden shelter on the edge of the Afghan capital, a dozen girls and women crouched on thin cushions one recent afternoon, their faces drawn with fatigue and fear. Some had been found…

UN Human Rights Council Twenty-Fourth Session 9th-27th September Sri Lanka has still not taken genuine, substantial measures to meet important human rights obligations. It has done little to end impunity; serious human rights violations remain ubiquitous. Since the Human…

In this report, PHR documents how persecution of and violence against the Rohingya in Burma has spread to other Muslim communities throughout the country. PHR conducted eight separate investigations in Burma and the surrounding region between…