Understanding Vulnerabilities and Strengthening Response: Community-Based Integration of Anti-Trafficking and Human Rights Protections within Post-Earthquake Recovery Efforts in Sindhupalchok District, Nepal, August-December 2015

Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action. 03/14/2016This 27-page report discusses the increased risk of violence, abuse, and trafficking in earthquake-hit areas. Four organizations, Swatantrata Abhiyan, Gramin Mahila Srijanseel Parivar, Free the Slaves Nepal, and the Freedom Fund, carried out research following the earthquakes in Nepal in 2015. The research explored whether frontline workers living in the area could be consulted and trained during the aftermath, and what practical actions they would undertake as a result. (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - March 25, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news