The Global Protection Cluster received 556 support requests between January and June 2026. These requests came from cluster operations and partners. A significant portion of the requests, 192, were related to specific thematic areas.
The thematic areas of focus were GBV and child protection. Support was provided jointly by the GPC team and other experts. Further details about the support requests and trends are available in the GPC Interagency Field Support Trends Overview report, which covers the period from 1 January to 30 June 2026.
. Almost everyone now wants to be associated with it. Donors promote it, international agencies build strategies around it, national organisations claim the role, and staff pursue related positions. It is both a policy agenda and a source of funding and legitimacy. This is not in...
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At Halton Hideaway, you won’t see the tall skyscrapers and shining skyline for which Singapore is best known. Instead, the white two-story colonial house is tucked behind lush banyan and mangosteen trees, just a short walk from the ocean. Kingfishers and hornbills call out to vis...
The most revealing sign of civic unrest is not the slogans shouted in public but the relationships abandoned in private. Since 2020, I’ve traveled around the country giving talks on a destabilizing ideology that seemed, almost overnight, to be everywhere. The Q&A sessions quickly...
On the evening of October 14, 2016, armed Islamic terrorists from the Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) descended on American missionary Jeff Woodke’s home in Abalak, a town in northern Niger. They shot two house guards and abducted Woodke as he tried to escape, then mo...
. Executive Summary Myanmar faces a protracted humanitarian emergency characterized by widespread displacement, ongoing armed conflict, severe economic deterioration, and compounding natural disasters. The crisis demands sustained international attention and coordinated humanitar...
. Executive Summary The Occupied Palestinian Territories face a catastrophic humanitarian crisis marked by severe food insecurity, mass displacement, and the near-collapse of essential services. In Gaza, the majority of the population relies entirely on humanitarian assistance, w...
. Executive Summary This Lebanon SituationHub report provides comprehensive situational analysis and actionable intelligence for humanitarian decision-makers responding to the ongoing crisis in Lebanon. The humanitarian situation in Lebanon requires coordinated, evidence-based re...
Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia ....
. For women who are heading households, our data show that the impacts of violence, demolition of homes, and movement restrictions are even more devastating. Settler violence, military operations, and movement restrictions in the occupied West Bank have reached a two-decade high,...
. Provided by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), with technical and operational support from the World Health Organization (WHO), the workshop was organized within the framework of the Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) initiative. It brought together professionals from diverse fields a...
