Let’s look at the reasoning, and numbers, of deinstitutionalization—America’s mid-century policy of moving the mentally ill population out of large hospitals of widely varying quality and into home-based care and community integration. In 1955, state mental hospitals housed 559,000 patients. That nu
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When Alicia Edmund heard the Parliament vote count for the UK’s assisted dying bill last week—286 noes to 270 ayes—her immediate reaction was shock. The bill had been defeated. As head of policy for the Evangelical Alliance in the UK, Edmund had spent countless hours in the past ...
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Earlier this summer, Nehad Hasan decided to travel from his home in Lebanon to Syria for a family vacation. He wanted his children to meet extended family and to see their ancestral homeland of Afrin, a Kurdish-majority region in northwest Syria. As the pastor of a Kurdish church...
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. HIGHLIGHTS The food security situation continues to deteriorate in GoY controlled areas, with 37 percent of the population facing severe food deprivation in August. Escalating hostilities are likely to deepen food insecurity in affected areas, eroding household access to food. ...
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Countries: Moldova, Ukraine .
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Countries: Cameroon, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo...
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Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, World .
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. OPERATIONAL CONTEXT & HIGHLIGHTS: • Since late August, the Russian Federation (RF) has significantly intensified frequency of attacks, damaging infrastructure and civilian sites, disrupting daily life and causing growing casualties. One of the deadliest attacks occurred on ...
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. UNHCR, in collaboration with government counterparts and implementing partners, provides primary healthcare services to refugees and neighboring host communities across Ethiopia, while facilitating access to secondary and tertiary referral services for refugees and asylum seeke...
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Countries: Ethiopia, South Sudan . ▪ With reference to Makatet’s pillar-4- Access to basic and social services, the pillar pre-requisites the preparation of a baseline assessment tool/template, and as such, in association with the IM unit, the assessment tool has been prepared to...
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. UNHCR, in collaboration with FDRE Refugee Returnee Service (RRS) and partners, is supporting refugees, asylum seekers, and host communities to access safe, dignified, habitable shelter—addressing urgent humanitarian needs while advancing integrated, climate-resilient settlement...
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. GBV interventions in Q1 2026 focused on prevention, risk mitigation, and response, with emphasis on survivor-centered services andcommunity-based prevention approaches, guided by the UNHCR GBV Strategy 2023–2026: ▪ Empowerment of women, girls and adolescents ▪ Strengthening sur...
