Global Humanitarian Overview is an annual report published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. It documents how...

Programme (WFP). According to the Global Humanitarian Overview of OCHA, nearly 300 million people need humanitarian assistance and protection in 2024...

respond to the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the oPt. Since 2015, the annual production of the Global Humanitarian Overview reports. Since 2015, OCHA...

Security Database (AWSD) documented 139 humanitarian workers killed in intentional attacks out of the estimated global population of 569,700 workers. In every...

international humanitarian laws consisting of four treaties and three additional protocols that establish international legal standards for humanitarian treatment...

The overview effect is a cognitive shift reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space. Researchers have characterized the effect as "a...

access to HIV medicines. Virchow Prize for Global Health, Member of the Prize Committee (2022–present) Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria...

emergency raised disturbing questions about the relationship between humanitarian agencies and host governments. However, according to Peter Gill, in his...

community of States has developed and adopted instruments of International Humanitarian Law, the international law rules relevant in times of armed conflict...

Solferino (French: Un souvenir de Solférino) is a book of the Swiss humanitarian Henry Dunant published in 1862. It proved decisive in the founding of...

The plight of the affected people and countries prompted a worldwide humanitarian response, with donations totalling more than US$14 billion (equivalent...

was planned in Hong Kong. All NGOs and humanitarian agencies, including UN agencies, are bound by the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality...

of Humanitarian Affairs in 2017, as part of a wider series of reforms called the "New Way of Working". A target to increase the percentage of global spending...

Asylum shopping Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons Global Compact on Refugees Impediment to expulsion Office of the United Nations...

Mission's Chief, Hédi Annabi. Many countries responded to appeals for humanitarian aid, pledging funds and dispatching rescue and medical teams, engineers...

as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, social activist, and co-founder of the Red Cross. His humanitarian efforts won him the first Nobel...

of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). He was preceded in the post by Kenzo Oshima of Japan. During his time in office, he initiated the global humanitarian reforms...

urged "all armed groups to respect international humanitarian law and the activities of humanitarians". On 1 January Ashton once again expressed concern...

World Humanitarian Day is an international day dedicated to recognize humanitarian personnel and those who have died working for humanitarian causes....

1951) is a British diplomat who served as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the United Nations from 2021...

evacuating about 15 US nationals, Sudanese-Americans and those working in humanitarian operations, from the United Nations base in Bor on 22 December. Although...

June 2023. Global Humanitarian Overview 2021, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs The State of the Humanitarian System, ALNAP...

for Haiyan housing to rebuild war-torn Marawi. The Philippines faced a humanitarian crisis days after the typhoon hit much of the Visayas with 1.8 million...

mortality rates in southern Somalia, prompting the UN to downgrade the humanitarian situation in the Bay, Bakool and Lower Shabele regions from famine to...

The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16 million volunteers, members, and staff...

Humanitarian assistance is aid and action designed to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity during and after man-made crises and...

(formerly known as the Sphere Project) is a global movement started in 1997 aiming to improve the quality of humanitarian assistance. The Sphere standards are...

Bausch, Daniel G. (2017). "West Africa 2013 Ebola: From Virus Outbreak to Humanitarian Crisis". In Mühlberger, Elke; Hensley, Lisa L.; Towner, Jonathan S. (eds...

The Humanitarian Cluster System is a system, used by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, to coordinate multi-agency...

the Soviet Union had also left the United States in a unique position of global dominance, creating a variety of new problems for the UN (See the United...