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  • Mobile Clinics and Mental Health Care: The NGO Response to Ukraine’s Health Crises

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    New Security Broadcast  //  November 18, 2022  //  By Claire Doyle

    Thumbnail Podcast ImagesThe war in Ukraine is not only displacing millions, straining the economy, and ravaging infrastructure. It’s also creating a mounting health crisis. In this week’s New Security Broadcast, ECSP’s Director Lauren Risi hears from Ambassador Daniel Speckhard and Dr. Mariia Dolynska about the health impacts created by the war in Ukraine and what is still needed to strengthen the health system—as well as what one NGO is doing to deliver healthcare in the embattled nation.

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  • Cascading Impacts of the War in Ukraine: Mental, Maternal, and Newborn Health

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    Dot-Mom  //  July 20, 2022  //  By Sarah B. Barnes

    FILE - Medical workers hold newborn Alana close to her mother after a cesarean section at a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 11, 2022. Alana's mother had to be evacuated from another maternity hospital that was bombed by Russian forces and lost some of her toes. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

    This article was originally published as part of the summer 2022 issue of the Wilson Quarterly: Ripples of War.

    Ukraine and its people will feel the effects of the Russian invasion for years to come. More than 6 million refugees have left Ukraine, another 8 million Ukrainians are internally displaced. Among those most impacted are Ukraine’s women and girls, who have a greater chance of experiencing gender-based violence, exploitation, and trafficking. They also face escalated maternal and newborn mortality rates stemming from lack of services and diminished care, as well as injuries and trauma due to the ongoing conflict. Less visibly, Ukrainians are confronting severe emotional distress and trauma.

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  • Water Management in Armed Conflict: Improving Collaboration and Joint Knowledge

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 13, 2022  //  By Juliane Schillinger
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    Speaking at a session at the 2nd International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding in February, Guillaume Pierrehumbert, head of the Water and Habitat Unit of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called for “a comprehensive rethink of collective humanitarian action” to address the unprecedented civilian crises in protracted armed conflicts.

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  • Raising Momentum for Integrating Respectful Maternity Care in Humanitarian Settings

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    Dot-Mom  //  Guest Contributor  //  March 9, 2022  //  By Pooja Sripad & Andrea Edman
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    Greater than one third of all women experience mistreatment during facility-based childbirth. Mistreatment, particularly in humanitarian settings, may include verbal or physical abuse, poor patient-provider rapport, a lack of information about maternal and newborn health (MNH) services for both pregnant women and providers, lack of privacy within facilities, challenges with receiving informed consent from women for medical procedures due to language and cultural barriers, and denied or delayed care. Such mistreatment can stem from historical tensions between populations seeking care and health workers (both foreign and local) as well as systemic mistreatment of providers who are burned out and possibly carry their own biases. Evidence shows that some women delay seeking care, or avoid care entirely because of social fears stemming from negative stigma or negative perceptions of their situation. 

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  • The Environmental Dimensions of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

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    March 4, 2022  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    Today, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association published an open letter, signed by 902 individuals and 156 organizations from more than 75 countries, to express solidarity with the people of Ukraine in the face of Russia’s invasion and shine a light on some of the environmental risks posed by the invasion that have both short and long-term implications. Below is an excerpt of that letter.

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  • COVID-19 Costs: Declining Maternal and Child Nutrition in Low-and Middle-Income Countries

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  Reading Radar  //  February 9, 2022  //  By Claire Hubley
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    “The pandemic and related global economic recession are severe setbacks to already insufficient progress towards meeting the global nutrition targets set for 2025 for stunting, wasting, maternal anemia and breastfeeding,” write the authors of a 2021 study examining the effects of COVID-19 on child and maternal health and nutrition. Adequate nutrition in the perinatal period is essential for healthy mothers and babies, and COVID-19-induced poverty and disruptions to global supply chains have compromised the food security of people around the world, mostly in low-to-middle-income countries (LMICs).

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  • The Changing Face of the Global Humanitarian Crisis: Gender, Climate Change, and Humanitarian Interventions

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    On the Beat  //  December 13, 2021  //  By Shruti Samala
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    ​“In a changing world with galloping, growing needs, we can’t keep making the same efforts, issuing the same pleas, and just write bigger and bigger checks and expect different results,” said Samantha Power, Administrator of the United Agency for International Development (USAID), at the launch of the Global Humanitarian Overview, co-hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, USAID, and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA). “We must change the ways we deliver humanitarian assistance to include full participation, design, and leadership from local populations and organizations, from women and marginalized peoples who can help develop truly sustainable solutions to the risks they face in their own communities,” said Power.

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  • Accessing Justice for Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Settings

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  December 8, 2021  //  By Sarah B. Barnes

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    Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global epidemic rooted in gender inequality and an imbalance in power dynamics. All persons are at risk of violence because of their gender or perceived gender. Women and girls—including transgender women and girls—experience disproportionate gender-based violence, and this violence is even more prevalent among women and girls who have been forcibly displaced.

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