Red Crescent Societies
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. List of Illustrations. Introduction. Section One: Key Issues. 1. Addressing Humanitarian Needs Around Conflicts. 2. UN Sanctions and the Humanitarian Crisis. Section Two: Methodologies. 3. Doing the Right Thing: Why Good Practice? 4. ...
Bayes Ahmed, Miriam Orcutt, Peter Sammonds, Rachel Burns et al.
The Rohingya people are the world's largest stateless population.1UNHCR“This is our home”. Stateless minorities and their search for citizenship.http://www.unhcr.org/ibelong/stateless-minorities/Date: November, 2017Google Scholar Violence towards the Rohingya in Myanmar from late August, 2017, cause...
Arielle Tozier de la Poterie, Eduardo Castro, Hafizur Rahaman, Dorothy Heinrich et al.
Anticipatory action (AA) is a growing area of climate and disaster risk management that emphasizes the use of climate services and risk analyses to predict where crises might strike and enable action to prevent or mitigate impacts before disasters occur. Based on interviews with stakeholders involve...
Sarker Mohammad Nasrullah, Tanjamul Refat, Martina Gustavsson
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this scoping review was to map the nature and extent of the existing literature on mental health interventions for humanitarian volunteers in disaster contexts. The study also explored how the interventions were evaluated. DESIGN: The methodology of this scoping review followe...
Sophie Cousins
Flooding has killed more than 800 people and displaced over a million in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, raising fears of widespread outbreaks of waterborne and vectorborne disease. Although the seasonal monsoon rains from June to September are crucial to farmers across the region, this year’s floodi...
Gilbert Burnham
The past 16 months have seen major disasters in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Hundreds of thousands of people have died and millions have had their lives changed forever. Some attention has focused on a possible increase in the frequency of natural and man-made hazards that are responsible for the...
Satyabrata Dash, Lene Møller Christensen
The initiatives forMentalHealth and Psychosocial Support by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies are presented, using the case of a cyclone in Bangladesh. The IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings have proved useful, but n...
Bruce Dick
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies began their Child Alive program in 1984 to inform parents and caregivers about actions to improve childrens health. It also had a donor education component. It limited its focus to diarrhea prevention and immunization. Monitoring o...
Arbaz Zaman, Hafsa Ahmed, Muhammad Usman, Md Ariful Haque
Heavy monsoon rains hit Pakistan in August 2022, causing a massive flood and landslide, culminating in devastating flooding that affected millions of people. The 2022 floods devastated all four provinces of Pakistan and killed over 1700 people, accounting for nearly 15% of the country’s population. ...
Sarah Harrison, Alex Ssimbwa, Mohamed Elshazly, Mahmuda Mahmuda et al.
Early in 2019, a situational analysis of mental health and psychosocial support services for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar was carried out jointly by International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies Reference Centre, International Organisation for Migration and United Nations High Com...
S Huzairi, Nada SZ, Khalilah AB, B Shamsul
Introduction: Malaysian Field Hospital (MFH) in the district of Ukhia, Bangladesh has been operating since December 2017. It is an effort by the Malaysian government to assist in the humanitarian crisis involving Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.Objective: To share experiences in the tertiary care se...
Michael Barnett, Janice Gross Stein
The global humanitarian movement, which originated within Western religious organizations in the early nineteenth century, has been of most important forces in world politics in advancing both human rights and human welfare. While the religious groups that founded the movement originally focused on ...
Md. Omar Qayum, Immamul Muntasir, Arifa Hasnat ali, Nazmus Sakib et al.
Background: Bangladesh has well established facility based surveillance system for several diseases, but major gaps remain in detecting early signals at the community level. This protocol outlines the design and initial implementation of Community-Based Surveillance (CBS) in Bangladesh to establish ...
Md. Ashik Sarder, Red Crescent Societies Bangladesh
The geo-physical contexts of different areas of Bangladesh are diverse and distinctive from location to location. Each of the area has distinct characteristics and varied livelihoods pattern. The recent climate change has made different communities of Bangladesh vulnerable to frequent disasters. The...
Md. Ashik Sarder Ashik
The CDI2WASH program was implemented by BDRCS in collaboration with International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies at four communities and 29 schools of Rangpur and Gopalganj in Bangladesh from 2014 to 2018. Different types of hardware and software WASH interventions including cont...
ناصر ضاحی فلاح
الملخص إن العمل التطوعي انعکاس لرقي الفکر والقيم والثقافة الإنسانية، وانطلاقًا من المبادئ والقيم التي جُبل عليها المجتمع الکويتي، ومن حبّه للوقوف إلى جانب الضعفاء، ومساعدته للمحتاجين، تأسست جمعية الهلال الأحمر. الکويت کانت ولازالت وستظل معطاءة للأبد من خلال مؤسساتها الحکومية الأهلية المتنوعة ولا سيم...
Enrique Sevillano Gutiérrez, Eugénie Crété, Cecilia Braedt, Luisa Miranda Morel et al.
Collaborating institutions :- Global shelter cluster- LABEX AE&CC / ENSAG / Université Grenoble-Alpes- CARE International UK- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies- BUET: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Md Akbaruddin Ahmad
This chapter discusses the state capacity to manage disasters in Bangladesh. It explains that human, animals and other living creatures are subjected to face such calamities with varying degrees of intensity and damage to life and property which nevertheless remains a routine situation for the gover...
New Delhi: (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, India, the Maldives, Nepal) Bangladesh —Negotiations with the country's authorities concerning a possible joint ICRC/League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies/National Society survey in the Chittagong Hill Tracts were at a standstill.
Philip Lewis, Samir Khalil Samir, Christian W. Troll, K. Alavi et al.
THE RUSHDIE FILE. By L. Appignanesi and S. Maitland. London: Fourth Estate, 1989. 258pp. £5.95. ISBN 0–947795–84–7. BE CAREFUL WITH MUHAMMAD! — THE SALMAN RUSHDIE AFFAIR. By S.Akhtar. London: Bellew, 1989. 136pp. £6.95. ISBN 0–947792–27–9. A SATANIC AFFAIR: SALMAN RUSHDIE AND THE RAGE OF ISLAM. By M...