Amidst violent conflicts and the ever-growing and multifaceted humanitarian crises around the globe, protecting humanitarian and health workers is a prerequisite for the provision of aid and medical care to those in need.
This research paper analyses how armed groups and de facto authorities (AGDAs) behave, under what circumstances they may comply with IHL and IHRL, and how humanitarian actors may engage AGDAs for the protection and promotion of humanitarian space.
Attacks on health care represent an area of growing international concern. This article compares two separate datasets compiled using publicly-available data and identifies underreporting of attacks on health care facilities as one reason for minimal overlap of the two datasets.
This article explores the non-straightforward role of data about attacks on health in creating policy and normative change to safeguard access to healthcare and protect healthcare providers in conflict.
This paper examines why data on threats to and attacks on healthcare in conflict is important to protection, advocacy, and investigation and how it can be improved and harmonized.
This collection of tools is intended for humanitarian organisations, human rights actors, researchers, clinicians, policymakers, donors and all other actors committed to protecting healthcare in conflict.
Toolkit
By:
Insecurity Insight
Center for Public Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins University
The International Rescue Committee and Physicians for Human Rights
Launched in December 2019, the Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) is a global and standardized monitoring system for the collection of primary data about attacks on health care.