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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.
March 2020
Health workers killed and hospitals damaged.
October 2020
Threatening behaviour towards NGO staff related to aid delivery practices is the most common concern.
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September 2020
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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 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.
Definitions and methodology for the data ‘COVID-19 pandemic: Attacks on health care in 2020’ data by Insecurity Insight.
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.
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.
June 2020
Social Media Monitoring
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
June 2020
Social Media Monitoring
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.
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.
May 2020
Social Media Monitoring
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.
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.
April 2020
Social Media Monitoring
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April 2020
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March 2020
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