Report on resolution 5:
– Date: 31.07.2019
– Country: United Kingdom
– Type of entity: State
– Did your Government take any action to improve the safety and security of humanitarian volunteers and minimize inherent risks?
Yes
– Check the box
– Trainings
– a national system for the collection and dissemination of comprehensive data, including sex and age disaggregated data
– measures to promote public understanding and acceptance of the role of humanitarian volunteers,
– integration of measures to protect volunteer safety and security in national laws,
– policies, plans and programmes for emergency management
– measures to hold perpetrators of crimes against humanitarian volunteers accountable
– regularly share challenges and good practices
– considered providing support to other countries, as donors, in accordance with national legislation and the humanitarian principles
– Offering/Sharing expertise and resources
– What measures have your public authorities undertaken to provide direct or indirect support for the insurance or equivalent “safety net” assistance for volunteers of National Societies and other actors deploying humanitarian volunteers within their territories?
• We publicly condemn attacks and call for protection of aid workers in as many international fora as we can, including the governing bodies of UN agencies such as UHNCR and OCHA as well as the Red Cross along with specific member state briefings on humanitarian crises.
Update: 2015 International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Resolutions
– Country: United Kingdom
– Type of entity: State
– Did your Government take any action to improve the safety and security of humanitarian volunteers and minimize inherent risks?
Yes
– Check the box
– Trainings
– a national system for the collection and dissemination of comprehensive data, including sex and age disaggregated data
– measures to promote public understanding and acceptance of the role of humanitarian volunteers,
– integration of measures to protect volunteer safety and security in national laws,
– policies, plans and programmes for emergency management
– measures to hold perpetrators of crimes against humanitarian volunteers accountable
– regularly share challenges and good practices
– considered providing support to other countries, as donors, in accordance with national legislation and the humanitarian principles
– Offering/Sharing expertise and resources
– What measures have your public authorities undertaken to provide direct or indirect support for the insurance or equivalent “safety net” assistance for volunteers of National Societies and other actors deploying humanitarian volunteers within their territories?
• We publicly condemn attacks and call for protection of aid workers in as many international fora as we can, including the governing bodies of UN agencies such as UHNCR and OCHA as well as the Red Cross along with specific member state briefings on humanitarian crises.
Update: 2015 International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Resolutions
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