Take a look at this story atlas by Insecurity Insight and UC Berkeley Human Rights Center. Featuring documented attacks and threats of violence against health care in 2020, which includes videos of attacks and much more.
The COVID-19-related attacks reveal a disturbing new dimension of violence against health care, which has in the past related primarily to attacks on health care amid armed conflict or routine health services provision.
Health workers killed and hospitals damaged.
October 2020 Threatening behaviour towards NGO staff related to aid delivery practices is the most common concern.
Insight: The proliferation of criminal organisations in Mexico that display increasingly aggressive behaviour is spreading across the whole country. This violence now also affects health care workers.
Insight: Events rose in July.13 events have been reported from Cameroon between January and July, compared to eight recorded by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) for all of 2019.
INSIGHT: Events rose in Cameroon and Syria in July. Violence remains a concern for health providers in Afghanistan, DRC, Libya, and Yemen. Increase in conflict-related violence in Mexico affecting health care.