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Violence against aid workers inquiry

Inquiry

The Committee concluded that the growing threat of violence against aid and healthcare workers in conflict-affected countries is putting humanitarian efforts at risk, a report by the International Development Committee has found. The Committee calls for strong leadership from the UK to better safeguard aid and healthcare workers from harm and hold aggressors to account by using diplomatic pressure to encourage the enforcement of international law.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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14th Report - Tackling violence against aid workers
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15th Special Report - Tackling violence against aid workers: Government response to the Committee’s Fourteenth Report
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HC 2691
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15th Special Report - Tackling violence against aid workers: Government response to the Committee’s Fourteenth Report
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Oral evidence transcripts

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25 June 2019
Inquiry Violence against aid workers inquiry
Witnesses Lisa Reilly, Executive Director, and Fredrik Palsson, EISF Steering Group Chair, European Interagency Security Forum; Rt Hon Dr Andrew Murrison MP, Minister of State for the Middle East at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister of State for International Development, and Matthew Wyatt, Deputy Director and Head of Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department (CHASE), Department for International Development (at 3.00pm).
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3 April 2019
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Witnesses Vincent Cochetel, Special Envoy for the Central Mediterranean Situation, UNHCR; Sir Stephen O’Brien, former UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mark Brailsford, Deputy Head of Delegation, International Committee of the Red Cross (at 3.15pm).
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