Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition

Insecurity Insight documents attacks on health workers, facilities and patients for the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC), a group of international nongovernmental organisations working to protect health workers, services and infrastructure.

The data for attacks on health workers, facilities and patients collected by Insecurity Insight for the SHCC are analysed in the Coalition’s annual report:

Ignoring Red Lines: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict

In 2022, the SHCC documented 1,989 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in conflicts across 32 countries and territories. Incidents increased by 45% in 2022 compared with 2021 and marked the highest annual number of incidents recorded by the Coalition since it began tracking such violence. The incidents included deliberate targeting of health facilities with explosive weapons, burning and looting hospitals, arresting and kidnapping health workers, and deliberately obstructing health care access.

Factsheets on 16 countries and territories with at least 15 incidents of violence against health care can be accessed below:

Africa: Burkina Faso; Cameroon; CAR; DRC; Mali; Nigeria; South Sudan; Sudan.

Asia: Afghanistan; Myanmar; Syria.

Europe: Ukraine.

Middle East and North Africa: Iran; occupied Palestinian territory; Pakistan; Yemen.

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2022 Executive Summary

SHCC 2022 Report

Recommendations

Methodology

Datasets

Global Health Map

2022 Executive Summaries

Annual SHCC Reports (EN)

Annual SHCC Reports (AR)

Annual SHCC Reports (FR)

Other SHCC Resources

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Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC)

Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC)

The SHCC is made up of 40 health provider organizations, humanitarian groups, human rights organizations, NGOs, and academic programs to take action to protect health workers and end attacks against them.

The coalition promotes the security of health workers and services threatened by war or civil unrest; strengthen universal norms of respect for the right to health; demand accountability for perpetrators; and empower providers and civil society groups to be champions for their right to health.