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1. Violence Against Health Care: Attacks During a Pandemic

Published: March 9, 2021

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.

2. New interactive map depicts 412 acts of pandemic-related violence and threats to health workers and services around the world in 2020

Published: March 3, 2021

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.

3. 2020 SHCC COVID Report

Published: March 3, 2021

4. Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh impacting health care

Published: November 20, 2020

Health workers killed and hospitals damaged.

5. Aid Security Risk

Published: November 3, 2020

October 2020 Threatening behaviour towards NGO staff related to aid delivery practices is the most common concern.

6. Who commits violence against health care, what weapons are used and what this can tell us about the perpetrators’ underlying motives

Published: November 2, 2020

7. Mob attacks

Published: October 29, 2020

September 2020 Recommendations

8. Conflict-related attacks on health care in Mexico 2020

Published: October 2, 2020

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.

9. Recent conflict-violence trends and their impact on health care in 2020.

Published: October 1, 2020

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.

10. Aid and health worker safety and security in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Published: September 3, 2020

11. Methodology

Published: August 19, 2020

Definitions and methodology for the data ‘COVID-19 pandemic: Attacks on health care in 2020’ data by Insecurity Insight.

12. Attacks on schools continue despite COVID-19 pandemic

Published: July 10, 2020

Since the pandemic was declared, the overall number of violently damaged schools declined. However, violence against school buildings remains a concern in Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Ukraine, and Yemen.

13. Conflict-related attacks on health care in Cameroon 2020

Published: July 2, 2020

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.

14. Ebola Misinformation

Published: June 12, 2020

June 2020 Social Media Monitoring

15. Aid Security and COVID-19

Published: June 10, 2020

The new normal: attacks on health care during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to reports, community members or members of the security forces perpetrated most of the direct COVID-related violence. Continue reading

16. Rumours & Allegations

Published: June 4, 2020

June 2020 Social Media Monitoring

17. Aid Security and COVID-19

Published: June 1, 2020

Armed groups continue attacks on health despite COVID-19 pandemic. On 23 March 2020, António Guterres called for a global ceasefire. Insecurity Insight’s monitoring shows that conflict related violence continued to affect health care in at least 11 countries.

18. Aid Security and COVID-19

Published: May 26, 2020

Bombing of hospitals continue in Libya and Yemen despite COVID-19 pandemic. Warring parties in Libya resumed hostilities affecting health care. The Houthi’s didn’t accept Saudi-led coalition’s previous ceasefire call. Violence continued in several provinces.

19. COVID-19 Rumours

Published: May 18, 2020

May 2020 Social Media Monitoring

20. Aid Security and COVID-19

Published: May 7, 2020

Health workers face security threats while accusations against the international health effort circulate on social media. Health measures related to COVID-19 have been met with resistance often with direct consequences to health workers enforcing or carrying out these measures.

21. Aid Security and COVID-19

Published: May 1, 2020

Misinformation targeting foreigners on social media. This has contributed to an explosion in aggressive rhetoric directed specifically at Europeans and other foreigners working in the aid sector in some countries.

22. COVID-19 Mistrust

Published: April 28, 2020

April 2020 Social Media Monitoring

23. Aid Security and COVID-19

Published: April 17, 2020

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24. Central African Republic

Published: April 17, 2020

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25. Aid Security and COVID-19

Published: April 8, 2020

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26. COVID-19 in N.Kivu

Published: April 8, 2020

April 2020 Social Media Monitoring

27. Aid Security and COVID-19

Published: March 30, 2020

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28. Ebola in N.Kivu

Published: March 30, 2020

March 2020 Social Media Monitoring