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Guidance Note for Humanitarian Actors in Gaza: Understanding the Link between Food Scarcity and Gender-Based Violence

Gender Based Violence Area of Responsibility GBV AoR; United Nations Population Fund UNFPA (2025) CC

The Gaza Strip is experiencing one of the most severe food security crises globally, with the entire population of approximately 2.1 million people now facing crisis-level food insecurity or worse (IPC Phase 3+). As of May 2025, more than one in five Gazans—about 470,000 people—are at risk of s ... more

Prévention et réponse à la violence sexuelle et sexiste dans les centres de quarantaine COVID-19

Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (2020) CC

Les gouvernements du monde entier mettent rapidement en œuvre des mesures pour contenir la propagation de COVID-19 et protéger leurs citoyens. De nombreux gouvernements mettent en place des centres de quarantaine et leurs forces armées sont souvent mobilisées pour les gérer. Certains pays const ... more

Children in danger: Act to end violence against children

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (2014)

Every five minutes a child dies as the result of violence, according to a ground-breaking report from Unicef UK. The report reveals that the vast majority of children are killed outside warzones and that physical, sexual and emotional abuse is wides ... more

Ebola Myths, Realities and Structural Violence

ANNIEWILKINSON ANDMELISSA LEACH (2014)

The scale of West Africa’s Ebola epidemic has been attributed to the weak health systems of affected countries, their lack of resources, the mobility of communities and their inexperience in dealing with Ebola. This briefing for African Affairs argues that these explanations lack important contex ... more

“No one was left” - Death and Violence Against the Rohingya in Rakhine State, Myanmar

Médecins sans Frontières MSF (2018) CC

Plantetary Security in Search of Drivers of Violence and Conflict Part II

H. Visser, de Bruin S., Knoop J. , et al. (2019) CC

Inferences through Machine Learning.Background Report. What are the major origins and drivers of different types of conflict? Sorting out the main causes of conflict and war is difficult and often shaped by ideological believes. Even today, historians and political scientists have discussions on ... more

Tool 7: Accessible information, education and communication (IEC) materials. Building Capacity for Disability Inclusion in Gender-Based Violence Programming in Humanitarian Settings.

Womens Refugee Commission (2019) C1

This tool provides guidance on how to adapt and use information, education and communication (IEC) materials so that they can be understood by people with disabilities. People with disabilities have a right to access all information relating to gender-based ... more

Medical Peace Work Course 4: Structural violence and the underlying causes of violent conflict

Salvage J, Rowson M, Melf K and Sandøy I medical peace work (2012) CC

In this course you will examine the interconnections between poverty, development and violent conflict. This is one of seven Medical Peace Work courses.

A Matter of Life and Death: Tackling Violence against Health Care in Pakistan, Peru and El Salvador

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2017) C1

Every day, health-care providers are being attacked, patients discriminated against, ambulances held up at checkpoints, hospitals bombed, medical supplies looted and entire communities cut off from critical services around the world.
Between January 2012 and December 2014, the ICRC documented n ... more

Maltraitance et exposition précoce à la violence

S. MK Tan; N. K. Nor; L. S. Fong; et al. IACAPAP (2012) C2

Psychiatrie de l'enfant Chapitre B.1 Edition en français Traduction : Apolline Morville Sous la direction de : Priscille Gérardin Avec le soutien de la SFPEADA

Strategies and interventions on preventing and responding to violence and injuries among refugees and migrants (2020)

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

This technical guidance outlines current evidence, knowledge and best practice relating to incidences of violence and injuries among refugees and migrants in the WHO European Region. It highlights key principles, summarizes priority actions and chal ... more

Protecting Children with Disabilities from Violence in CBR Projects: Why We Need to Work with a Different Form of Child Protection Policy for Children with Disabilities

Marieke Boersma Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development Journal (DCIDJ) (2013) CC

Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development, [S.l.], v. 24, n. 3, p. 112-122, nov. 2013. ISSN 2211-5242 Children with disabilities encounter more violence in their lives than their peers without disability. Organisations involved in Community Based Re ... more

Handbook for Coordinating Gender-based Violence Interventions in Emergencies 2019
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Protection Cluster (2019) C2

This handbook is a quick-reference tool that provides practical, field-level guidance to establish and maintain a GBV sub-cluster in a humanitarian emergency. It provides the foundations for coordination. More in-depth information can be pursued through resources referenced in this handbook. The GBV ... more

The Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020

UNICEF WHO (2020) C_WHO

As this report shows, reports of child abuse and of children witnessing violence between their parents and caregivers have increased. Ending violence against children is increasingly within our ... more

Operating in Insecurity Shifting patterns of violence against humanitarian aid providers and their staff (1996-2010)

Christina Wille and Larissa Fast Insecurity Insight (2013) C1

Insecurity Insight Report 13-1.

Directives pour l’intégration d’interventions ciblant la violence basée sur le genre dans l’action humanitaire

Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC, Global Protection Cluster (2015) C1

Réduction des risques, promotion de la résilience et aide au relèvement

Planetary Security: In Search of Drivers of Violence and Conflict Part I

H. Visser, de Bruin S., Knoop J. et al. (2018) CC

National-scale databases and reliability issue Background report

“As if We Weren’t Human” -Discrimination and Violence against Women with Disabilities in Northern Uganda

Human Rights Watch (2010) C1

Preventing and addressing intimate partner violence against migrant and ethnic minority women: the role of the health sector

World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe (2014)

Policy Brief