IMPUNITY REMAINS: Attacks on Health Care in 2018 23 Countries in Conflict
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IMPUNITY REMAINS: Attacks on Health Care in 2018 23 Countries in Conflict C : 100 M : 60 J : 0 N : 0 Médecins du monde - Identité visuelle FRANCE 08/07/2009 SAFEGUARDING HEALTH IN CONFLICT COALITION MEMBERS TABLE OF CONTENTS Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief and International Health Protection Initiative ACRONYMS ................................................................................................................................................2 Development (ACBAR) International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims LETTER FROM THE CHAIR ........................................................................................................................3 Alliance of Health Organizations (Afghanistan) International Rescue Committee MAP .............................................................................................................................................................4 American Public Health Association IntraHealth International DATA VISUALS ............................................................................................................................................6 Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..............................................................................................................................8 Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns RECOMMENDATIONS .............................................................................................................................13 Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health METHODOLOGY ......................................................................................................................................16 Consortium of Universities for Global Health Karen Human Rights Group COUNTRIES EXPERIENCING THE MOST ATTACKS Defenders for Medical Impartiality Management Sciences for Health Afghanistan ............................................................................................................................................21 Doctors for Human Rights (UK) Medact Cameroon ...............................................................................................................................................23 Doctors of the World - Médecins du Monde Medical Aid for Palestinians Central African Republic ........................................................................................................................24 Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights North to North Health Partnership (N2N) Democratic Republic of Congo .............................................................................................................26 Friends of the Global Fund Africa (Friends Africa) Office of Global Health, Drexel Dornsife School Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory ........................................................................................28 of Public Health Global Health Council Libya .......................................................................................................................................................31 Pakistan Medical Association Global Health through Education, Training and Service Mali .........................................................................................................................................................33 (GHETS) Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) Nigeria ....................................................................................................................................................34 Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Physicians for Human Rights–Israel South Sudan ...........................................................................................................................................36 Human Rights Watch Save the Children Syria ........................................................................................................................................................38 Insecurity Insight Surgeons OverSeas (SOS) Yemen .....................................................................................................................................................42 International Council of Nurses Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) OTHER COUNTRIES OF CONCERN ........................................................................................................44 International Federation of Health and Human Rights University Research Company Organisations ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................................................................................51 Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict International Federation of Medical Students’ NOTES .......................................................................................................................................................52 Associations (IFMSA) World Vision SHCC MEMBERS MAY 2019 1 ACRONYMS LETTER FROM THE CHAIR AB ......................................Anti-Balaka The connection between violence against health facilities and health workers and people’s health has been brought home dramatically in the extremely difficult effort to bring the Ebola ADF ...................................Allied Democratic Forces epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo under control. Attacks on clinics, health CAR ...................................Central African Republic workers, police, and peacekeepers have severely impeded the work, resulting in suspensions DRC ...................................Democratic Republic of Congo of health programs for days or longer and restricting efforts to reach people to stop the ES ......................................Ex-Séléka spread of the disease. FPRC .................................Popular Front for the Rebirth of Central African Republic At the end of December, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, HDX ..................................Humanitarian Data Exchange said that gains in stopping Ebola “could be lost if we suffer a period of prolonged insecurity, resulting in increased transmission. That would be a tragedy for the local population, who have already suffered too much.”i Indeed, ICRC ..................................International Committee of the Red Cross it has been, just as violence against health care has had tragic consequences for the people of Afghanistan, the ISIL ....................................Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Central African Republic, the occupied Palestinian territory, Syria, Yemen, and so many other places in the world. ISIS ....................................Islamic State of Iraq and Syria The report shows what is happening in conflicts throughout the world. We have become accustomed to rhetoric MINUSMA ........................United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali that condemns attacks on health care as unacceptable. But the absence of tangible follow-up on United Nations MONUSCO .......................United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Security Council resolution 2286 suggests that attacks on health, while illegal under international law, are becoming accepted. The report makes extensive recommendations to end this passivity, as we owe the wounded and sick, MSF ...................................Médecins Sans Frontières as well as the health workers who serve them, protection of their rights to life and health. NGO ..................................Nongovernmental Organization OCHA ................................Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs oPt .....................................occupied Palestinian territory -Len Rubenstein, chair, Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition SELC ..................................Saudi and Emirati-led Coalition SPLA ..................................Sudan People’s Liberation Army SPLA-IO ............................Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition SSA ....................................Surveillance System of Attacks on Healthcare UCDP ................................Uppsala Conflict Data Program UN .....................................United Nations UNAMA ............................United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan UNHCR .............................United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees i Ghebreyesus, Tedros Adhanom. Statement on disruptions to the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. WHO. December 28, 2018. https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/28-12-2018-statement-on-disruptions-to-the-ebola-response-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo. WHO .................................World Health Organization 2 ACRONYMS MAY 2019 3 COUNTRIES WITH ATTACKS ON HEALTH CARE IN 2018 COUNTRIES # OF ATTACKS UKRAINE AFGHANISTAN 98 BURKINA FASO 7 TURKEY CAMEROON 14 CAR 47 SYRIA 11 DRC 24 AFGHANISTAN EGYPT 1 ETHIOPIA 1 ISRAEL/oPt 3 INDONESIA 2 308 257 IRAQ MYANMAR IRAQ 12 LIBYA 12 98 ISRAEL/oPt 308 MALI 11 LIBYA 47 47 EGYPT 1 THE PHILIPPINES MALI 16 4 2 MYANMAR 4 SUDAN PAKISTAN 16 NIGERIA 23 7 PAKISTAN 11 53 YEMEN 7 THE PHILIPPINES 2 23 1 10 SOMALIA 10 47 15 SOMALIA S. SUDAN 15 14 SUDAN 7 BURKINA FASO NIGERIA ETHIOPIA 2 SYRIA 257 24 TURKEY 3 SOUTH SUDAN UKRAINE 11 CAMEROON YEMEN 53 INDONESIA CAR DRC IN 2018, THERE WERE AT LEAST 973 ATTACKS ON HEALTH WORKERS, HEALTH FACILITIES, AND HEALTH TRANSPORTS IN 23 COUNTRIES IN CONFLICT AROUND THE WORLD. AT LEAST 167 HEALTH WORKERS