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Emergencies and Humanitarian Assistance

Photograph of UNHCR worker using his laptop through a satellite phone by lamplight
At night, after a long day visiting refugee sites along the remote Chad-Sudan border, UNHCR team leader Yvan Sturm downloads his e-mails on his laptop through his thuraya satellite phone by lamplight.
© UNHCR/H.Caux

When a new humanitarian crisis occurs, aid workers and humanitarian practitioners require rapid access to information resources that can help them prepare for emergency assignments.  This page provides access to web-based resources for current news, background country information, operational materials, codes of conduct, periodicals, and employment/volunteer listings.  It also highlights documents from FMO's digital library that discuss the nature of humanitarianism.  Finally, contact details for key emergency relief agencies are also listed.

Web Resources

For more, search in the Web Catalogue

News/Situation Reports

See also: News Sources

Background Country Information

For a comprehensive listing of resources providing country of origin information, please see the Country Information Resources page.

Operational Materials

See also:

The Sphere Project's Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, revised handbook 2004.

FMO have made most of the references and reading materials in the handbook's bibliographies accessible online (in full text). The bibliographies are structured in the same way as they are in the handbook and are divided into the following categories:

Other Handbooks and Guidelines (FMO catalogued resources)

Map of Principle Sources of Forced Migration in the World 2004(© Forced Migration Online)
Click on the image above to launch an interactive map illustrating principle sources of forced migration in the world during 2004.

Help:
To view information about a specific country, place your mouse over a circle symbol.
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Codes of Conduct

Information Sharing Fora for Aid Workers

Emergency/Volunteer Registers

Employment/Volunteer Resources

Documents/Journal Articles

For more, search in the Digital Library

Organizations

For more, search in the FMO Organizations Directory