Protection Cluster in South Sudan🇸🇸, together with GPC, held a training in Juba on Effective Reporting Techniques for partners 📷

Objectives incl strengthening reporting capacities on key #protection risks, needs & partner reponse, to enable actionable & targeted advocacy

'Applying a Protection Lens with Early Recovery Approaches: Preventing New Cycles of Violence in North-West Syria'

Join the Brussels VIII Conference Side Event:

📅 15 May
⏰ 2-4pm GVA / 3-5pm Gaziantep
❔ To Join: shorturl.at/epHLS
ℹ More Info: shorturl.at/ioAX9

Join us @ Protection of Civilians Week Side Event!

‘Strengthening the Continuity of Protection During & After UN Mission Transitions & Withdrawals’

⏰ 1pm EDT
📅 24 May
❔ Hybrid Event

Register now! shorturl.at/eot18

#NotATarget #PoCWeek2024

Civilians are #NotATarget ❗️

🇨🇭Switzerland is excited to share the calendar of side events for the Protection of Civilians (PoC) Week 2024, taking place from 20 to 24 May.

More info➡️bit.ly/3WDDO2u

#POCWEEK2024

❕MOST SEVERE PROTECTION RISKS IN 1st QUARTER OF 2024❕

Gender-based violence remains top reported #protection risk across active Protection Clusters

100% of operations report 7 critical risks

Read latest Global Protection Update 👉shorturl.at/sPWX0

Internal Displacement and Solutions Conference - Recordings now available! For those who missed the conference in March, recordings are now on our website and Spotify: rli.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/inter…
#InternalDisplacement #Refugees #IDP #Solutions #UnitedNations #RefugeeLaw Researching Internal Displacement

Latest Global Protection Update (Q1 2024) provides country updates, explores emerging #protection trends & tracks risks across active Protection Clusters

❗️Thematic focus on protection of IDPs in contexts of forced returns, relocations & camp closures

🔗shorturl.at/sPWX0

🚨The humanitarian crisis in #Yemen escalates, leaving 18.2 million people in desperate need of vital aid this year.

Urgent funding isn't just crucial; it's a lifeline for survival.

#InvestInHumanity
#Yemen CantWait

Good intervention in #HNPW Salle 2 at the moment from the #Ukrainian Protection cluster co-lead - a local Ukrainian NGO. Great to hear how #clusters are locally led, connected to government, and operating in local language. Global Protection Cluster

The Protection Cluster for the occupied Palestinian territory and the Global Protection Cluster issue a Joint Statement:

'Civilians Lives on the Line: Risks of Further Harm and Severe Suffering with Potential Rafah Incursion'

Read here: rb.gy/t6xfd8

Ethiopia Protection Analysis Update
Key protection risks:
- Attacks on civilians a
- Child and forced family separation
- Discrimination and stigmatization,
- GBV
- Impediments to legal identity, remedies, and justice

globalprotectioncluster.org/publications/1…

L'escalade du conflit #RDC entraîne des niveaux records de violence sexiste, de déplacements et de faim menaçant de pousser le pays au bord de la catastrophe sans une action internationale urgente.

Intensifions notre soutien au peuple congolais.

#IASC 👉bit.ly/3JIKYv0

The Democratic Republic of Congo has suffered decades of conflict; in the last few months “more than 700,000 people have been forced to flee their homes, bringing the total number of displaced people to an all-time high of 7.2 million.” We must do more to support them! #IASC

In the last two days, the South Sudan GBV AoR held a consultative workshop with the participation of the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare, GBV partners, and donors. We discussed and agreed on the GBV AoR's Strategic Plan and priority interventions, among other topics.

Escalating conflict is driving record levels of gender-based violence, displacement & hunger in #DRC threatening to push the country to the brink of catastrophe without urgent international action

We must step up our support to the Congolese people
#IASC 👉bit.ly/3JIKYv0

From 29 April to 1 May, 800 mine action experts from 100+ countries are meeting in Geneva to discuss and act on how to “Protect Lives and Build Peace”.

#NDMUN27

Learn More 👉🏾: ndmun.org/#tab-c11289

Protection Sector NE Nigeria 🇳🇬 shares its Strategy for Principled Returns & Relocations in the Context of Government-Led Camp Closures.

#Protection standards & considerations must be mainstreamed in camp closure decisions & procedures.

Read here 🔗 rb.gy/h6avoc

There are 824,000 forcibly displaced in Niger 🇳🇪, 59% of whom are children.

📷 #Protection Cluster, incl AoRs, recent retreat aimed to strengthen the coordination of UN, NGOs & authorities' interventions in order to save lives & ensure the resilience of affected communities.

Did you read this? Global Protection Cluster and UNHCR South Sudan joint Protection Analysis Update

Key risks:

1️⃣ Child 🧒 and forced family separation ⛔️
2️⃣ Gender-based violence
3️⃣ Theft, extortion, forced eviction or destruction of personal property 👛🛖
4️⃣ Impediments &

Mesud, the Executive Director of the Consortium of Ethiopian Human Rights Organizations (CEHRO Ethiopia) and member of the Global Protection Cluster’s Advocacy Working Group, which is co-chaired by Oxfam, was in Geneva today for the high-level pledging conference for Ethiopia.

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