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-centred services are available and accessible, many men/boy survivors disclose victimisation and seek care. On the Aquarius search and rescue vessel in the Mediterranean, for example, health providers significantly increased sexual violence service uptake among men and women refugees and migrants by convening private, gender-specific groups and informing people about the forms of sexual violence, its prevalence on the migration route and the medical and mental health consequences of
the overthrow of Haile Selassie ( Burg, 2008 ; Desportes et al. , 2019 ). Information was suppressed about conflict ( Vaux, 2001 ), forced migration and the extent of the crisis itself ( Clay and Holcomb, 1985 ). The reason was clearly political: the famine of 1972–74 was the triggering event (if not the underlying cause) for the overthrow of Haile Selassie’s government. The regime was very aware of the political consequences of failing to
in Yemen. The structural drivers of hunger in Yemen pre-date the present conflict and have their roots in years of export-oriented irrigation-dependent agricultural policy promoted by donors which led to a high degree of import-dependence, integration into a regional oil economy, a male-migration (and remittance) based economy and a highly militarised patronage-based ruling system. The proximate drivers of mass starvation, however, have been the
experience in similar lower literacy contexts, pictures of ‘smiley faces’ were used for participants to indicate which option they selected. The statements in the survey explored knowledge, attitudes and practices related to gender within multiple sectors. The survey questions were developed by the consultants in consultation with Save the Children technical staff in South Sudan. The questions were reviewed and revised with field staff and team leaders prior to data collection. The survey also captured sex, age and migration status. The FGD guide was structured in three
, 23 : 1 , 57 – 70 . Benton , M. and Glennie , A. ( 2016 ). Digital Humanitarianism: How Tech Entrepreneurs Are Supporting Refugee Integration ( Washington, DC : Migration Policy Institute ), www
kind, yet this is everyday reality for billions of people. One function of the entire humanitarian enterprise might be to obscure root causes and allow those who, en masse, might be able to bring pressure to bear to relieve suffering (mobilised citizens in the West) to think that something is being done so they need not act nor feel guilty. Donations are given instrumentally, to prevent migration, and as the wages of sin, a palliative for guilt and shame. Humanitarian actions might help prevent armies of the dispossessed from flooding the
. In the case of the UN and its specialised agencies (UNICEF, UNHCR, International Organization for Migration (IOM), World Food Programme (WFP), etc.) security analysis and policies are delegated to the United Nations Department for Safety and Security (UNDSS), which is mandated to analyse security contexts and stipulate operating procedures for UN agencies and their partner NGOs. In countries where it operates, UNDSS has comparatively limited capacity to undertake assessments in order to alter previously completed security assessments or to open up previously
). 35 Remarks made by MSF communication officers. 36 As mentioned earlier, the main criteria for a food and nutrition crisis are mortality and malnutrition rates. But a multiplicity of criteria relating to food security also come into play: production shortfalls, food and livestock costs, population migration, access to water, socio-economic criteria, general morbidity, etc