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Pubescent girls face unique emotional barriers to returning to school after a disaster concerning water, sanitation and hygiene (WAS
In 2019, 30,000 people were forced to leave their homes due to conflict, persecution, and natural disaster each day.
Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a grave threat to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Adequate environmental health services are critical for human rights, health, and development, especially in the context of forced d
The most important information concerning WASH and the COVID-19 virus is summarized here.
Legal principles and moral obligations that guarantee the basic needs of people living in humanitarian crisis situations (HCSs) pred
Post-disaster relief and recovery operations seldom focus on women’s priorities regarding menstrual hygiene.
This paper aims to understand the value of collaboration in a ‘state of emergency’ situation, featuring the case of the water, sanit
This briefing paper presents a case study of a Peepoo implementation in first phase humanitarian response.
This paper describes the potential of ecological sanitation (ecosan), and in particular of urine-diversion dehydrating (UDD) toilets