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Read the original press release here SG Report: Conflict-related sexual violence Sexual violence is used as a war tactic and ...
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Date: Thursday 23 July 2020 at 14:00 Geneva time Organized by the GP20 initiative, IOM, IDMC and UNICEF, this webinar ...
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Communiqué de presse Mali : les consequences de l’insecurité sur les populations civiles suscitent de vives inquieéudes dans le nord ...
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Human Rights Council, 44th Session: Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children - ...
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When: - 8th July, 1500-1730 (Geneva time): West and Central Africa, Southern Africa, Americas (link to connect) - 9th July, ...
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The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, presented two reports to the UN ...
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THE COPING CRISIS:  The rise of adverse survival strategies   This Situation Report covers operational updates in the 32 countries where the Protection Cluster is active  ...
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Link to GPC Community of Practice: https://gpc.spigit.com/ Held on 29 May, this was an informative and interactive presentation on how ...
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3 - 24 June 2020 Webinar Series and Discussion 'Land Rights Implications of COVID-19' : Online Discussion on the Land ...
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Webinar series on exploring challenges and best practice for access and humanitarian protection, April-June 2020 Humanitarian protection is often the ...
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On 28 May, the second session of the webinar series on 'access and protection' focused on challenges that practitioners face ...
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The webinar discussed practices being piloted or considered in the field, including quarantine, isolation, shielding or creation of a ‘green ...
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On 22 April, the first session of the webinar series on 'access and protection' brought together a panel of experts ...
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COVID-19 : FORCED EVICTIONS This Situation Report covers operational updates in countries where the Protection Cluster is active Source: COVID-19 ...
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Practices and considerations in a COVID-19 context Basic info Time and date: Friday, 01 May 2020, 15:30 – 17:00 (Geneva) ...
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COVID-19 : A HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS ? This Situation Report covers operational updates in countries where the Protection Cluster is ...
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DIMINISHING PROTECTION SPACE This Situation Report covers operational updates in countries where the Protection Cluster/Sector is active Source: John Hopkins ...
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On the 22nd anniversary of the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, a group of leading United ...
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DIMINISHING PROTECTION SPACE This Situation Report covers operational updates in countries where the Protection Cluster/Sector is active. I- Emerging Trends: ...
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In operations where Protection Clusters, Sectors or Working Groups are active, over 4500 COVID-19 cases and 114 COVID-19 deaths have ...
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A first-hand account from William S. Chemaly, Global GPC Coordinator, Claudia Nicoletti, Yannick Creoff on behalf of the Protection Cluster ...
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GPC Coordinator, William Chemaly, provides a first hand account of the rapidly escalating humanitarian crisis in northern Burkina Faso Standing ...
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Launch of the 2020-2024 Global Protection Cluster Strategic Framework & the Child Protection Area of Responsibility Strategy Speakers: UNHCR Assistant ...
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New Global Protection Cluster Strategic Advisory Group For a shared leadership and joint responsibility The Global Protection Cluster announced today ...
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On 22 October, the Global Protection Cluster (GPC) has organized in partnership with PHAP an online session on the future ...
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In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of civilian casualties from explosive ordnance. According to ...
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The Protection Cluster in Iraq launched a new service mapping tool “Services Advisor Platform”, which is ready to use. The ...
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Rosa, age 7, holds her younger brother, Manuel, on the veranda of a guesthouse in Buzi. They are two of ...
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Guidance Words Into Action – Disaster Displacement As part of the Platform on Disaster Displacement’s efforts to ensure that future disaster ...
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NRC training manual for CSO on the Kampala Convention The training manual was developed with a view to reinforcing the ...
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The Global Protection Cluster (GPC) has taken a lead role in 2018 in operationalising the centrality of protection, through improved ...
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This learning paper is the final product of the GPC and its AoRs’ localisation initiative. It aims to identify, describe ...
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Unit-Based Costing Methodologies For HRPs and Protection Clusters is out. This paper aims to stimulate thinking and initiate a discussion ...
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The GPC has decided to discontinue the Task Team on Protection Mainstreaming for the upcoming year. After many years of ...
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The Global Protection Cluster Task Team on Anti-Trafficking in Humanitarian Action is pleased to announce an upcoming 2-day practitioner working ...
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On Monday, the National Assembly unanimously voted for the adoption of a national law for the protection and assistance of ...
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Two GP20 events on IDPs happening next week in Geneva during the 39th Human Rights Council session. They are both convened ...
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Each year the Global Protection Cluster (GPC) organises a Field Protection Clusters’ Retreat which brings together GPC partners from the ...
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Between October 2017 and June 2018, the Global Protection Cluster Anti-Trafficking Task Team conducted semi-structured interviews with Protection Cluster Coordinators, ...
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A revised 2018 version of the ‘PIM Training Resource Pack’ is now available for download from the following link The Protection Information Management ...
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The Gender with age marker has been officially launched at the ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment in New York on June ...
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For the second year, the GPC reviewed global and field efforts to reinforce the centrality of protection in humanitarian action ...
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As part of the 38th session of the Human Rights Council related to internally displaced persons.A side event is co-organizing by ...
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is organizing an international humanitarian law (IHL) course for humanitarian practitioners, to be held, ...
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A multi-stakeholder Plan of Action has been launched this year, the 20th anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement ...
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The current dynamics and conduct of armed conflict as well as the absence of effective mechanisms to mediate root causes ...
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The Geneva launch of the third edition of the Professional Standards for Protection Work will take place on Monday, 30 ...
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The people of South Sudan have suffered intense and protracted conflict. The beginning of 2017 saw the declaration of famine ...
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Please see the recent statement of the ERC to the Security Council on the connexion between conflict and famine and ...
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The Whole of Syria Protection Sector calls for immediate and urgent action to protect hundreds of thousands of civilians, half ...
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Dear colleagues, In 2018, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement will mark their 20th anniversary. Because the Guiding Principles have ...
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The Global Protection Cluster Task Team on Protection Mainstreaming launched its Protection Mainstreaming Toolkit. In light of the IASC Policy ...
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The terms and definitions in this glossary have been compiled from existing glossaries including from the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) ...
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The Global Protection Cluster (GPC) held a Somalia Country Briefing on 20th November at UNHCR Headquarters. The Deputy Special Representative ...
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This evaluation focuses on the performance of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as Cluster ...
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What is the role of Mine Action organisations in addressing land rights issues as part of their response to humanitarian ...
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Click here do download the Quick Guide on the Humanitarian Response Planning ...
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How do humanitarian mine action activities bring mine action organizations in direct contact with land right issues? On August, 30 ...
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Violence has recently erupted throughout the five provinces that make up the Greater Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of ...
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Ongoing conflicts continue to give rise to serious protection challenges in northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen. Conflicts in ...
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This guidance note is part of a larger project that seeks to provide guidance to practitioners and policy makers, at ...
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In 2017, the Whole of Syria ("WOS") protection sector proposed a shift from a "mainstreaming" approach to a strategy that ...
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The GBV AoR Coordination Team has developed several strategic documents that define the GBV AoR scope and strategic priorities for ...
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UNHCR seeks a maternity cover (August 2017 - September 2018) for its Cash and Protection Advisor. The Cash and Protection ...
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The ongoing conflict in Yemen, compounded with cholera and pockets of famine, continues to increase the protection needs of an ...
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The Mixed Migration self-learning module will be part of the certification programme (CP-IP) currently being developed by the Global Learning ...
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To read the GPC Annual Field Protection Cluster Notes click here and to access the Protection Mainstreaming Side Event Notes ...
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The Protection and Accountability to Affected Populations in the HRP (EDG Preliminary Guidance Note) is now available in Russian and ...
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Can innovation practices enhance GPC's capacities in guiding, supporting and implementing protection programming? If so, could an innovation Lab help ...
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1.27 million civilians have been forcibly displaced from Kasaï, Kasaï Central and Kasaï Oriental provinces, as well as neighbouring provinces ...
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This manual provides an overview of protection in the context of WFP's operations and seeks to guide staff to better ...
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HARARE (5 April 2017) – The Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, today welcomed ...
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Ce document s'appuie sur un exercice de cartographie que l'Équipe de travail sur les lois et les politiques du Cluster ...
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The restitution of housing, land and property rights after conflicts and periods of non-democratic governance are fundamental aspects of transitional ...
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The Global Protection Cluster (GPC) Housing, Land and Property (HLP) Area of Responsibility (AoR) organised a one-day global HLP event ...
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The Women's Refugee Commission has released a new publication entitled Vulnerability- and resilience-based approaches in response to the Syrian crisis: ...
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As part of a review of 2016, the Global Protection Cluster (GPC) and ProCap (the Inter-Agency senior protection capacity standby ...
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In a webinar organized by InterAction, Simon Russell, the newly appointed Global Protection Cluster (GPC) Coordinator gave his perspective on ...
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Humanitarian Coordinators (HCs) and Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs) are responsible for ensuring that protection is central to humanitarian action. This ...
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The Global Protection Cluster calls for immediate action to protect people under intensified aerial bombardment over the last week in ...
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Acts of violence affecting the delivery of aid are frequent in humanitarian settings, such as recently in South Sudan, Syria, ...
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Can innovation practices enhance GPC's capacities in guiding, supporting and implementing protection programming? If so, could an innovation Lab help ...
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This Note sets out practical steps that Humanitarian Coordinators (HCs) and Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs) can take to ensure that ...
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GPC Retreat Report 2016 ...
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In order for the GPC to achieve its strategic objectives it is imperative to equip the GPC Operations Cell with ...
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This paper is based on a mapping exercise that the Global Protection Cluster (GPC)'s Task Team on Law and Policy ...
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The aim of this guidance is to assist humanitarian Coordinators (HCs) and HCTs to develop a comprehensive and humanitarian system-wide ...
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Renewed fighting broke out on Friday, 8 July. Since then, hundreds of people have been killed, rapes have been reported ...
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A group of experts met at Georgetown University on June 9, 2016 to discuss progress since August 2015 in improving ...
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A new internship position has opened with the Global Protection Cluster (GPC) Operations Cell. The GPC Operations Cell assists the ...
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The present report provides an account of the activities undertaken by the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally ...
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With the support of the Global Protection Cluster (GPC), UNHCR and NRC will hold a side event at the World ...
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The IASC Emergency Directors Group has developed a preliminary guidance note on Protection and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) in ...
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Cash-Based interventions (CBIs), including cash and vouchers, provide a flexible mechanism for delivery of assistance that enables IDPs to meet ...
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A new briefing by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent ...
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Oxfam – working on behalf of the Global Protection Cluster and with the generous support of ECHO – has developed ...
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The Global Protection Cluster convened a meeting at the offices of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva on ...
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Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O'Brien in this video message welcomes the new GPC Strategic Framework which closely aligns with priorities ...
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Dr. Chaloka Beyani, Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Persons, in his message outlines the three key goals ...
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Volker Turk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, welcomes the launch of the GPC Strategic Framework. You can find the GPC ...
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In countries affected by the Zika virus where there are refugees, asylum-seekers and returnees governments should aim to ensure that ...
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