Edith Mecha

After years of displacement, Syrians are beginning to return home. Their hopes are high, but challenges remain.
Rebuilding lives and communities requires lasting support. UNHCR will be there. bit.ly/3PStfnW

This is the first trial to assess the clinical efficacy of a vaccine against Ebola disease from the Sudan species of the virus. It is also the first clinical trial of the vaccine during an outbreak. IAVI, the provider of the vaccine, conducted trials for safety and immunogenicity. bit.ly/3WLdFy1

📢@icvanetwork.bsky.social has created a webpage with the latest resources and updates on the US 90-Day Funding Suspension.

We'll do our best to keep it up to date. Please do tag us with any key resources we are missing!

Explore the page⤵️
icvanetwork.org/90-day-suspe...

#HumanitarianAid

Empowering Local Women Leaders in Humanitarian Action: ICVA’s Women Humanitarian Leadership Training Programme

🎯ICVA’s 2022-2023 humanitarian leadership training empowered Women-Led Organisations across Africa, Asia and MENA, enhancing their leadership, advocacy, and donor engagement.

Read more in the case study⬇️
https://www.icvanetwork.org/resource/icva-2023-case-studies/

#Humanitarian #WomenLeadersh…

The 2024 Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week was held on 10 - 12 December 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand under the theme: Sparking Global Change through Local ... 2024 Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week Highlights

🎯The 2024 Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week, co-hosted by ICVA, ADRRN, CWSA, and UNOCHA, focused on the theme 'Sparking Global Change through Local Solutions in Humanitarian Action.'

Missed it? Watch the highlight video ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm2uhknpcuk

#RHPW2024 #Humanitarian

🎯They died while helping others.

In 2024, a record 356 humanitarians were killed. How many more will it take before we act?

➡️Demand respect for International Humanitarian Law.
➡️Demand protection.
➡️Demand accountability.

Humanitarians are #NotATarget.

@unocha.org
@humoutcomes.bsky.social

Peace is the best medicine

Message from the Director General, Dr Tedros ⬇️

Peace is the best medicine!

The #Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal is welcome and encouraging. Too many lives have been lost and too many families have suffered. We hope all parties will respect the deal and work towards lasting peace.🧵

The rain isn’t cleansing; it floods fragile tents and turns the ground into mud, leaving children shivering under torn fabric that offers no protection. Read Rita Baroud’s account of the ongoing suffering in Gaza: ⬇️
https://buff.ly/3WeiOhS

These are the faces of forcibly displaced people.

Artist Es Devlin’s FACE to FACE: 50 Encounters with Strangers shares the stories of 50 people who fled their homes and now call London their home.

Learn more: bit.ly/4fYLXog

@unrefugeesuk.bsky.social

The Common Approach to Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Abuse, and Sexual Harassment

🚨Help Shape the Future of PSEAH!

The Common Approach to Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Abuse, and Sexual Harassment paper (CAPSEAH) examines the current resourcing framework for PSEAH and proposes a structured investment approach.

➡️ https://buff.ly/4gZTpQX

#PSEAH #GBV

The launch event of ICVA's Localisation in Humanitarian Leadership Report took place on 13 November 2024. The event was moderated by ICVA, featuring a brief ... Virtual Launch of ICVA's Localisation in Humanitarian Leadership Report

🌍In 2024, we launched the Localisation in Humanitarian Leadership report in an online event with NGO leaders, OCHA and USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA).

Report ➡️https://buff.ly/4a6YHIh
Watch the event launch recording ➡️ https://buff.ly/4a8qmbG

#Humanitarian #Localisation

Adapting Humanitarian Coordination – Challenges, Innovations, and Future Directions for NGO-led Mechanisms

🚨New Report: Adapting Humanitarian Coordination – Challenges, Innovations, and Future Directions for NGO-led Mechanisms

It dives deep into the challenges, highlights key innovations, and sets the stage for future directions in NGO-led coordination mechanisms⬇️
https://buff.ly/40crJBT

#NGOs

Report: Partnerships and Protection Against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse - ICVA A report on the important role played by partnerships in addressing allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) against aid workers.

📢Partnerships are crucial in preventing sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) in #humanitarian settings. A study by ICVA, the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response, UNHCR & GCPS highlights ways to improve prevention, risk mitigation & response to allegations of SEA⬇️

International Protection in Latin America - 40th Anniversary of the Cartagena Declaration on Refugees - ICVA International Council of Voluntary Agencies

🎯High-Level Ministerial Event of the Cartagena+40 Process

🕓11 - 12 December, 2024
🚩Santiago, Chile

Senior authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean will gather at the event to adopt the Chile Declaration and Action Plan 2024-2034. [1/5]

#Cartagena40 #HumanRights #LatinAmerica

🏚️ Destroyed homes.

🌪️ Families uprooted.

💔 Lives shattered.

But there’s hope. UNHCR is committed to staying and delivering aid to Syrians facing unimaginable challenges as they try to rebuild after nearly 14 years of conflict and displacement.

Here is how you can help: bit.ly/4guA8a9.

📢The 2024 Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week - Asia Pacific has officially begun!

On Day 1, we’re kicking things off with thought-provoking discussions on #climateaction, innovative solutions, and community-driven approaches to tackle #humanitarian challenges.

#RHPW2024 #asiapacific

Quote of Kamila

Picture of Kamila

Violence against women must end.

@UN_Women UN Volunteer Kamila believes that true change will only come when

🔸society stops accepting violence against women,
🔸brings it out of the shadows
🔸acknowledges that even one case of #GBV is too many.

#16Days

Women's rights are under attack worldwide—from gender-based violence to restrictions on their autonomy.

Women-led organizations are on the frontlines, facing backlash yet driving change.

Join us during #16Days of Activism and support them!

1 in 3 women worldwide has experienced physical and/or sexual violence mostly at the hands of an intimate partner.

It’s the International Day to End Violence against Women and Girls!

1 in 3 girls and women around the world experience physical and/or sexual violence by:

A husband
A boyfriend
An intimate partner
A lover
A parent
A relative
A colleague
A boss
A stranger

bit.ly/3gy8pfq
#NoExcuse

There is #NoExcuse.

Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the world stands in solidarity with survivors of gender-based violence.

We’re standing with them—are you? 🧡 #16Days

Love.
Home.
Security.
Belonging.
Family means everything to a child.
This #WorldChildrensDay, we reiterate our call for faster and easier family reunification procedures that can bring refugee children back to their families.

Survivors of sexual abuse by peacekeepers are too often left without real support. On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we’re gathering experts to explore what must change for true accountability. Join us Nov 25: https://buff.ly/3Cv5D59

16 Days of Activism: #NoExcuse. UNiTE to End Violence against Women Every 10 minutes, partners and family members killed a woman intentionally in 2023. The crisis of gender-based violence is urgent. That is why, during the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Viol...

🎯Every 10 minutes, a woman is killed.

This staggering reality reminds us that violence against women is not only pervasive but preventable.

#NoExcuse for silence.
#NoExcuse for inaction.

www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-d...

#16DaysOfActivism @unwomen

Cop29 live: As we head in to the second week, is the climate summit ‘stuck’? Halfway through the negotiations there is plenty of frustration. But, according to our environment editor Fiona Harvey, there is also still hope * Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal My colleague Damian…

Cop29 live: As we head in to the second week, is the climate summit ‘stuck’?

Protesters at the COP29 climate summit hold a silent protest.

Protesters at the COP29 U.N. talks hold signs demanding climate action during a silent protest.

Protesters at the COP29 U.N. summit raise their fists as part of a silent protest.

Activists at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, hold signs demanding climate action during a silent protest on Saturday, November 16.

Facing tight restrictions on demonstrations, activists at the #COP29 U.N. climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, held a silent protest Saturday to demand the phase-out of fossil fuels, climate financing for the Global South, and a just transition to clean energy.

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Cop29 delegates told to ‘cut the theatrics’ and tackle climate crisis UN climate chief addresses climate summit with no agreement in sight on how to help developing countries Countries meeting in Azerbaijan to discuss a new global financial settlement for tackling the climate crisis must “cut the theatrics” and get down to…

Cop29 delegates told to ‘cut the theatrics’ and tackle climate crisis