WHY DO WE NEED FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES? Imagine you are a Red Cross or Red Crescent volunteer. Your country is going through a brutal civil war and your job is to treat anyone who is sick or wounded...
Author: Barthold Bierens de Haan This brochure is intended for ICRC staff and humanitarian professionals working in conflict zones or other emergency situations. It describes and proposes ways of...
HIGHLIGHTS The invisible plight of people living in collective centres in Ukraine Central Emergency Response Fund helps almost 1,000 families restore livelihoods US$52 million urgently needed to...
Situation Overview At 5:30 PM 12 January 2020, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) has raised alert level 4 over Taal Volcano, indicating that hazardous eruption is...
BACKGROUND Continued hostilities in Luhansk and Donetsk regions has led to extensive conflict-related damage to civilian property on both sides of the contact line, with around 50,000 residential...
1. Cabinet Adopts Framework for Preferential Housing Loans Programme for IDPs and Veterans The previous Legal Alert volume provided information on 200 million UAH funding for the newly announced...
PROTECTION CONCERNS Civilian casualties: The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine recorded four conflict-related casualties (4 persons injured). Security: The security situation remains...
Executive summary This twenty-eighth report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the human rights situation in Ukraine covers the period of 16 August to...
1. Joint Forces Operation Commander Announces Yellow Safety Regime Within the Safety Zones Background: The Joint Forces Operation or JFO1 succeeded the ‘Anti-Terrorist Operation’ (‘ATO’) in April...
Summary The present report focuses on the implementation of the priority themes of the resolutions entitled “Rights of the child” adopted by the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth to seventy-third...