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PUBLICATIONS
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The road to resilience:
Bridging relief and development for a more sustainable
future
IFRC 2012
This 32-page discussion paper makes the case for a
development model that focuses on strengthening the resilience
of communities through greater investment in disaster
risk reduction, long-term food security solutions, improved
disaster response laws, and other efforts that meet both
humanitarian and sustainable development goals.
Available in Arabic, English, French and Spanish
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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
IFRC 2012
The IFRC’s new global brochure offers fresh insight,
facts, figures and photos to help external audiences understand
what the IFRC is, what they do and how they and their 187
member National Societies help vulnerable people around the
world.
Available in Arabic, English, French and Spanish
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Reducing the Risk of Food and Nutrition Insecurity among
Vulnerable Populations
IFRC–IFPRI, 2012
Vulnerable populations are minimally resilient to shocks,
whether caused by humans or natural disasters. Emerging threats
and new trends — such as climate change, population
growth, ageing societies, urbanization, infectious and non-communicable
diseases, and environmental degradation — are bound
to aggravate the consequences of shocks on already-vulnerable
populations.
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Working
for the ICRC
ICRC, 2012
Have you ever thought of working in the humanitarian
field? Do you have ‘soft’ skills and professional
experience? If so, the ICRC may be the place for you. This
brochure explains some of the jobs you could be doing with
the ICRC. It includes useful links to the ICRC on Facebook,
YouTube and other sites. And a chapter is devoted to the benefits
the ICRC offers its employees.
Available in English
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Towards
social inclusion: physical rehabilitation programme
ICRC, 2012
This brochure promotes the ICRC’s physical rehabilitation
work, describing the benefits of these services for disabled
people — from recovering their mobility to being integrated
back into society. It also explains what the ICRC does to ensure
that people have access to physical rehabilitation and describes
some of the situations in which it provides these services.
Available in English and French
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Volunteers,
Stay Safe! A security guide
for volunteers
IFRC, 2012
This booklet addresses the common situations that volunteers
and youth may face at the local level, such as road accidents,
domestic and school violence, common criminality (theft,
burglary or robbery) and health problems (quality of water
and food, diarrhoea, malaria, stress), and what to do before,
during and after a disaster. It also provides basic guidance
on establishing ‘volunteers,
stay safe’ procedures and aims to inform National Society
decision-makers on how to promote a culture of safety and provide
operational security support to volunteers.
Available in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish
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Medical
waste management
ICRC, 2012
The world is generating more and more waste, and hospitals
and health centres are no exception. Medical waste can be
infectious, contain toxic chemicals and pose contamination
risks to both people and the environment. If patients are
to receive health care and recover in safe surroundings,
waste must be disposed of safely. Choosing the correct course
of action for the different types of waste and setting priorities
are not always straightforward, particularly when there is
a limited budget. This manual provides guidance on what is
essential and what actions are required to ensure good management
of waste.
Available in English and French
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Constraints
on the waging of war: an introduction to international humanitarian
law
ICRC, 2011
This fully revised fourth edition of Constraints on the
waging of war considers the development of the principal
rules of international humanitarian law from their origins
to the present day. It focuses particularly on the rules
governing weapons, and the legal instruments through which
respect for the law can be enforced. Combining theory and
actual practice, this book appeals to both specialists and
students turning to the subject for the first time.
Available in English from Cambridge University Press. Sfr.
30. Available in Spanish from the ICRC
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Shelter
Coordination
in Natural Disasters
IFRC, 2012
This handbook provides an overview of the IFRC’s approach
to shelter coordination with its partners. It is aimed at shelter
coordination personnel, to provide a summary of the coordination
functions; agency decision-makers at global or country level
who may be contributing personnel to a Shelter Coordination
Team or participating in a country-level cluster; and donors
and affected governments.
Available in English
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Contingency
planning guide
IFRC, 2012
These guidelines aim to ensure that Red Cross Red
Crescent disaster response is consistent and of a high quality.
It provides an overview of the key elements of contingency
planning, and is aimed at assisting National Society and
IFRC staff responsible for developing contingency plans at
all levels. This document provides guidelines, not strict
rules; planning priorities will differ according to the context
and scope of any given situation.
Available in English
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Nuclear
weapons
ICRC, 2011
The existence of nuclear weapons raises profound questions
about when the rights of states must yield to the interests
of humanity, the capacity of our species to master its own
technology and the reach of international humanitarian law.
Every individual can take action towards ensuring that international
negotiations lead to the prohibition and elimination of all
nuclear weapons.
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Federation materials are available from the International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies,
P.O. Box 372, CH-1211 Geneva 19, Switzerland.
www.ifrc.org for the
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ICRC
materials are available from the International Committee
of the Red Cross, 19 avenue de la Paix, CH-1202 Geneva,
Switzerland.
www.icrc.org
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