• The Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD) is a project of the international research group Humanitarian Outcomes. Funded by USAID, it records major incidents...
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    cause of death among aid workers, and attacks have become increasingly more frequent since 1997 when the Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD) began tracking...
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    cause of death among aid workers, and attacks have become increasingly more frequent since 1997 when the Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD) began tracking...
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    agency for humanitarian aid in times of war A government treaty recognizing the neutrality of the agency and allowing it to provide aid in a war zone The former...
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    persistence of drought and poor security conditions in the north resulted in continuing need as well as hazards for famine relief workers. In late 1985, another...
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    prevented the three corps (III, IX and XI) of the Austrian 1st Army from aiding their comrades of the 2nd Army near Solferino, where the main French attacks...
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    Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva. He has also worked for Save The Children, Action Aid and UNICEF and has worked as an advisor to multiple United Nations Syria...
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    earthquake and tsunami killed about 123,000. Many health professionals and aid workers have reported widespread psychological trauma associated with the tsunami...
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    aspects of aid including calling for aid and providing shelter, roughly 21.5% of news reports used the aid frame. "The frequency of use of security frame in...
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    Systems, which have provided more than 2,000 experts and humanitarian workers to international organizations. During his time in office, Egeland actively...
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    International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (category Humanitarian aid organizations)
    emergency workers casts doubt on Israeli account of killings". CNN. Bunkall, Alistair (5 April 2025). "Video undermines Israel's account of aid worker deaths...
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    Dunant took the initiative to organize the local population in providing aid for the soldiers. After returning to Geneva, he recorded his experiences...
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    measures against a refugee if needed in the interest of essential national security (Article 9) respect a refugee's personal status and the rights that come...
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    expected this Big Four would resolve all major world problems at the powerful Security Council. However the UN was largely paralyzed by the veto of the Soviet...
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  • The State of the World's Cash 2020 Aid worker safety Attacks on humanitarian workers Aid Worker Security Database World Humanitarian Day Health Care In...
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    initiatives among help workers, especially from the Department of Health (Philippines), in extending Psychological First Aid to people in typhoon-affected...
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    The State of the World's Cash 2020 Aid worker safety Attacks on humanitarian workers Aid Worker Security Database World Humanitarian Day Health Care In...
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    October 2011 19:20. Somalia famine aid workers shot dead, BBC, 23 December 2011. "Security&Itemid=115 Kenyan ramps up security at Somali border, eyes al Shabaab"...
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    the deadliest attack on aid workers, six aid workers were killed in an ambush on 25 March 2017 bringing the number of aid workers killed since the start...
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    called for a national state of emergency on 10 June. However, despite the security crisis, Iraq's parliament did not allow Maliki to declare a state of emergency;...
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  • reliefweb.int. 2021-06-22. Retrieved 2024-03-07. "Security incident data | Aid Worker Security Database". www.aidworkersecurity.org. Retrieved 2024-03-07...
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    sitting unused at the airport. Aid workers blamed US-controlled airport operations for prioritising the transportation of security troops over rescuers and...
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    In the book, he describes the battle, the sufferings, the organisation of aid and asks: "Would it not be possible, in time of peace and quiet, to form...
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    declared Ebola-free. On 29 December 2014, Pauline Cafferkey, a British aid worker who had just returned to Glasgow from Sierra Leone, was diagnosed with...
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    and largely Runga FPRC. In 2015, humanitarian aid workers in the CAR were involved in more than 365 security incidents, more than Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq...
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  • Humanitarian Outcomes compile the Aid Worker Security Database, which documents attacks on humanitarian workers. As of 2020, Maciej Polkowski was the...
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    Kosovo Humanitarian Law Centre, Serbia Humanitarian Outcomes – Aid Worker Security Database The Human Rights Center Georgia Iniskoy for Peace and Democracy...
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    Humanitarian Cluster System (category Humanitarian aid)
    The system has been used since 2005 to improve the quality of humanitarian aid delivery. The cluster system categorizes humanization activities into eleven...
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  • sectors in humanitarian response: water supply and sanitation nutrition food aid shelter and site planning health services Five sector committees were formed...
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    Localisation (humanitarian practice) (category Humanitarian aid)
    Localisation (or localization) is the practice, in humanitarian aid, to give more decision making power and funding to organizations and people that are...
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