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  • Up and coming publications-

    · NOW ONLINE - The December 2009 edition of the Humanitarian Exchange in collaboration with the Humanitarian Studies Institute (Instituto de Estudios Humanitarios) in Bogota is now online and focuses on the humanitarian concerns related to mass internal displacement and continuing human rights violations in Colombia.

    · NOW ONLINE - The Spanish version is available in hard copy and online and a launch will be held in Bogota on February 12th 2010.

    · NOW ONLINE - The thematic sections of Humanitarian Exchange magazine 44, focusing on the crisis of human dignity in the West Bank and Gaza, have been translated into Arabic.

    · Issue 46 of the Humanitarian Exchange, to be published at the end of March, will focus on protection in humanitarian contexts.

    ·Issue 47 of the Humanitarian Exchange, which is being guest edited by Chris Finucane on behalf of the Security Management Institute, will focus on humanitarian safety and security.

Latest Exchange Magazine

Issue 45

This edition of Humanitarian Exchange, commissioned in collaboration with the Humanitarian Studies Institute (Instituto de Estudios Humanitarios), focuses on the humanitarian situation in Colombia

Including...

Humanitarian reform: a progress report

Protecting civilians and enhancing security in Colombia: what’s the difference?

Latest papers and reviews

©ICRC

Network Paper 61

Salud pública en poblaciones afectadas por crisis: una guía práctica para quienes toman las decisiones

Network Paper 67

Evidence-based decision-making in humanitarian assistance

Network Paper 66

Solving the risk equation: People-centred disaster risk assessment in Ethiopia

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