Human Rights and Refugees
Foreword by the Emergency Relief Coordinator
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
Results from 2022
The Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) 2022 presented initial funding requirements of $41 billion to assist 182 million of the 274 million people in need of humanitarian aid.
Global Humanitarian Overview 2023
A snapshot of the global trends driving increased humanitarian needs in 2023 analysis from 2022 and an overview of where the system is delivering better to help those affected by crises. The Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) is the world’s most comprehensive authoritative and evidence-based assessment of humanitarian need. Through plans that prioritize those most in need it aims to fight hunger killer diseases gender-based violence and displacement.
Pacific Islands
The Pacific region is one of the world’s most disaster-prone regions. Eight of the Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) – Fiji Vanuatu Tonga Solomon Islands the Federated States of Micronesia the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) Cook Islands and Niue – are among the top 15 most at risk of disasters globally.
Response plans: Overview for 2023
In 2023 339 million people will need humanitarian assistance and protection. The United Nations and partner organizations aim to assist 230 million people most in need across 69 countries which will require US$51.5 billion.
Other plans
In 2023 UNHCR and IOM will continue co-leading the Joint Response Plan (JRP) for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh and the regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan (RMRP) for refugees and migrants from Venezuela. In addition IOM will continue leading the inter-agency Migrant Response Plan for the Horn of Africa and Yemen (MRP). The three plans cover 22 countries.
West and Central Africa
The West and Central Africa region is the epicentre of a fast-growing crisis with unprecedented levels of armed violence and insecurity. Millions of people are being driven to the fringes of survival due to the confluence of conflict deep poverty demographic pressures urbanization weak governance chronically high food insecurity and malnutrition and the impact of climate change.
Education crisis severely disrupts a generation of students
The pandemic’s lingering impacts continue to strike a devastating blow to education worldwide. By the end of 2021 more than 200 schooldays were lost with students missing more than 2 trillion hours since the pandemic began. School closures affected more than 1.6 billion students globally with more than 1 billion living in low- and middle-income countries. The majority of school-age children live in low- and middle-income countries and they endured significantly longer school closures than those in high-income countries. In South Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean children missed three times the amount of education than was received by children living in Western Europe.
At a glance
After 20 years forced displacement shows no sign of slowing. More than 1 per cent of the world’s population — or 103 million people — are displaced. About two thirds of refugees and asylum-seekers originate from countries with food crises and nearly a quarter of all refugees are hosted in Least Developed Countries. Disasters and extreme weather events such as flooding and drought are responsible for the majority of forced displacements worldwide.
Hundreds of millions of people face hunger as historic food crisis looms
The largest global food crisis in modern history is unfolding driven by conflict climate shocks and the looming threat of global recession. Hundreds of millions of people are at risk of worsening hunger. Acute food insecurity is escalating and at least 222 million people across 53 countries are expected to face acute food insecurity and need urgent assistance by the end of 2022. There is also a gender dimension with women more likely to be affected by hunger. In 2021 nearly 32 per cent of women in the world were moderately or severely food insecure compared to nearly 28 per cent of men.
Southern and East Africa
Humanitarian needs continue to rise in Southern and East Africa as the region experiences the devastating effects of climate change economic challenges and conflicts. Many millions of people face acute food insecurity due to drought leading to large-scale displacement and protection concerns.
Towards an organizational and cultural change to ensure protection from sexual exploitation and abuse
Sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and sexual harassment can occur when there are unequal and harmful cultural and social norms and an inequitable distribution of resources and power - factors that are present in many humanitarian contexts.
Sharp slowdown of global economy hit by series of shocks
The global economy is slowing down sharply — more than a third of the global economy is expected to shrink in 2022-2023. Events around the world have had devastating knock-on effects including persistently high levels of global inflation especially in the United States and major European economies. Substantial economic downturn in China resulting from the property crisis COVID-19-related lockdowns and the impacts of the war in Ukraine have also played a significant role. These shocks are hitting a world economy that experienced unprecedented contractions in 2020 but has not yet recovered from the pandemic’s far-reaching impacts.
Middle East and North Africa
With more than 40 million migrants and 14 million internally displaced people the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has some of the world’s largest protracted conflicts as well as frequent natural and human-made crises pandemic outbreaks and climatic shocks.
Le Protocole sur l'eau et la santé
Cette publication visant à sensibiliser au Protocole CEE-OMS/Europe sur l'eau et la santé. Elle contient une section présentant le Protocole comme un traité international unique visant à protéger la santé et le bien-être de l'homme par une gestion durable de l'eau et à garantir l'accès à l'eau potable et à l'assainissement pour tous. Le document aborde ensuite les principales obligations du Protocole et certains des avantages d'être partie au Protocole tout en présentant les domaines techniques du programme de travail du Protocole relatifs à l'eau l'assainissement l'hygiène et la santé. Enfin une section de questions-réponses sur le processus d'adhésion est destinée aux pays qui envisagent de devenir parties au Protocole.
Права Человека и Выборы
With hundreds of references to the jurisprudence of United Nations human rights mechanisms this handbook provides human rights and electoral practitioners with a clear picture of the close interplay between elections and international human rights law. The handbook discusses international human rights standards regarding electoral processes and political participation and how these standards apply to specific aspects of elections. Current issues such as gender-based violence in politics disinformation and data manipulation and the impact of Internet shutdowns are considered in the light of international human rights law and the recommendations of United Nations experts.