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This report provides an interim account of the response to the 12 January earthquake in Haiti and to document the key lessons being learned. The report concentrates primarily on the activities of...
Climate change is already increasing the frequency and intensity of
natural hazards, and the numbers of natural disasters reported and
people affected are rising. Although it is clear...
Related Appeals: Congo Republic & DR Congo 01. 06/2002; Rwanda 01. 11/2002The Disaster/Situation: In the wake of last week's eruption, the situation on the ground in and around Goma has...
With the rise in the number of disasters and international actors involved, international disaster response is becoming increasingly complex from a regulatory standpoint. Legal problems are...
This report contains a summary and preliminary analysis of the finding of a series of field studies commissioned by the IFRC as part of the International Disaster Response Law Project.
The number of displaced people around the world has increased consistently over the past 10 years. The total number doubles every seven or eight years and this upward trend shows no sign of...
The Sphere Project was launched in 1997 by a group of humanitarian NGOs and the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement. Sphere is based on two core beliefs: first, that all possible steps should be...
Preliminary Appeal No. 02/2002Launched on: 18 January 2002 for three months for CHF 1, 533, 000 to assist 250, 000 beneficiaries. Revised to Full Appeal No. 02/02 on 15 February 2002 for CHF 4,...
The Humanitarian Situation Report is a concise public document intended to support thecoordination of humanitarian response in an acute crisis. It pulls together information from all ofthe...
Between December 2005 and February 2006, a team of researchers from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Department of Social Medicine from Harvard Medical School, carried...