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PUBLICATIONS
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World Disasters Report
IFRC, 2011
This year’s World Disasters Report focuses on the growing
crisis of hunger and malnutrition. Small farmers who produce
half the world’s food are among the almost 1 billion
people who go to bed hungry every night. Millions of children
suffer the irreversible effects of undernutrition. Increasing
food insecurity weakens people’s resilience to disasters
and disease, and people everywhere are experiencing increasing
volatility of food prices.
This report analyses the causes and impacts of such vulnerability
at community, national and international levels — both
during and after emergencies, as well as from a longer-term
perspective. It examines the challenges of the globalized
nature of food-related vulnerabilities, and the need for
a cross-disciplinary approach. What political action is needed
to reform a failing global food system that is unlikely to
provide sufficient food for a population projected to rise
to 9 billion by 2050?
Available in English. Summaries in Arabic, French and Spanish. |
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Protecting Civilians and Humanitarian Action Through an
Effective Arms Trade Treaty
ICRC, 2011
As long as weapons are too easily available, serious violations
of international humanitarian law will be more likely and
the provision of humanitarian assistance endangered. States,
Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and civil society all
have a role to play in promoting public awareness of the
human cost of poorly regulated arms transfers. All states
are encouraged to adopt a strong and comprehensive Arms Trade
Treaty so that transfers of conventional arms and ammunition
are not authorized if there is a clear risk that the arms
will be used to commit serious violations of IHL.
Available in Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. |
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Health care in danger: making the case
ICRC, 2011
This brochure draws attention to one of the most crucial
yet overlooked humanitarian issues of today: violence against
health-care providers and those seeking medical assistance.
Attacking health-care structures and personnel, and ambulances – as
well as deliberately obstructing the efforts of the wounded
to find help – are common features of conflicts throughout
the world. The ICRC has also produced a brochure, Health
care in danger: a harsh reality, and a series of posters,
which make the powerful point that many people in conflict
zones die not due to weapons wounds, but due to secondary
causes (lack of medicine, blocked roads, damaged health facilities,
or absence of health staff, etc.).
Available in Arabic, English and French |
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Drought
in the Horn of Africa – Preventing the next disaster
IFRC, 2011
The way governments and humanitarian organizations have
been approaching food insecurity in the Horn of Africa needs
to change. According to this 22-page advocacy report, governments,
donors and humanitarians must take a more integrated, longer-term
approach and invest in solutions that address the chronic
underlying causes of famine. Emergency assistance is critical
to saving lives. At the same time, all actors must work together
to build up the resilience of communities through locally
owned solutions (small-scale farming and livelihoods development)
along with reforms to stabilize food prices and other actions.
Available in Arabic, English and French. |
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Restoring
Links Between Dispersed Family Members
ICRC, 2011
This revised leaflet provides a concise summary of the
problem of families split up by war and describes methods
used to restore family links, reunite separated families
and ascertain the status of detainees and missing persons.
Available in Arabic, English, French and Spanish. |
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Violence
and the use of force
ICRC, 2011
The line separating disturbances and tensions from armed
conflict can sometimes be blurred and the only way to categorize
specific situations is by examining each individual case.
The way these situations are categorized can have direct
consequences both for the armed forces and civil authorities
and for the victims of the violence. It determines which
rules apply and the protection they provide is established
in greater or lesser detail according to the legal situation.
Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French and
Spanish.
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IFRC
Pakistan flood operation: 1 year on
Four videos from the IFRC
The floods that inundated large swaths of Pakistan during
July and August 2010 also destroyed sanitation and sewage
systems, contaminated water sources, left millions of people
homeless, caused long-term emotional scars and had a devastating
effect on people’s sources of income. These four videos describe the flood’s
effects and the IFRC’s efforts to provide relief and
foster recovery. The videos focus on water and sanitation,
the shelter programme in Sindh, psychosocial support and
livelihoods.
Available in English. |
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Health-care
void in western Côte d’Ivoire
ICRC film, 2011
Entire villages have been destroyed and health-care centres
looted in western Côte d’Ivoire. As an uneasy
calm settles, thousands of refugees and internally displaced
people are starting to return home. ICRC mobile clinics provide
the only health care for many villages in the area.
Available
in English, French and Spanish. |
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Federation materials are available from the International
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materials are available from the International Committee
of the Red Cross, 19 avenue de la Paix, CH-1202 Geneva,
Switzerland.
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