Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes. GLOBAL DISPLACEMENT AND MASS ATROCITIES Last Sunday, 20 June, was World Refugee Day. Ahead of the commemoration, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) published its annual report […]
Month: June 2021
Availing access to finance and markets empowers Ethiopian farmers
More than half of the population on the African continent works in agriculture. Despite its large economic share, the sector has failed to harness its full potential, due to a lack of modern tools, inability to maximize productivity and difficult access to financial markets. The Strengthening African Rural Smallholders (STARS) programme has improved the professional […]
Tigray region of Ethiopia – ETC Situation Report #1 (Reporting period 01/06/2021 to 15/06/2021)
Highlights As the ETC is now activated to support the response in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the Cluster will provide dedicated support and resources for the planned activities previously supported by the inter-agency ICT Emergency Cell. The Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) has committed US$500,000 to the ETC to support the humanitarian response in […]
Containing the Volatile Sudan-Ethiopia Border Dispute
What’s new? Ethiopia and Sudan are locked in a dangerous standoff over al-Fashaga, a swathe of fertile borderland from which Khartoum evicted thousands of Ethiopian farmers in December 2020. Clashes between the two countries’ troops have claimed dozens of combatant and civilian lives. Why does it matter? Fragile political transitions in both countries are at risk if […]
Remarks by the Acting Director of the Coordination Division, Wafaa Saeed, at the ECOSOC-HAS High-Level Panel on innovation as a driver of change: the use of new and emerging technologies and humanitarian data
Thank you so much Ambassador, and welcome to you all, and thank you for the opportunity to moderate this high-level panel on how we can make new technology and innovation work to support people in humanitarian need. New and emerging technologies can help shift humanitarian action from reaction to anticipation by enabling earlier, faster, and […]
Global Humanitarian Overview 2021, Mid-year Update (as of 21 June 2021)
As of mid-June 2021, the Global Humanitarian Overview require $35.9 billion to assist 161 million of the 238 million people in need.1 The GHO is made up of 27 Humanitarian Response Plans (HRP), six regional plans, three Flash Appeals, and one joint response plan for Bangladesh. Requirements this year are around $1 billion more than […]