Inadequate Aid Worker Insurance
Lack of comprehensive and affordable insurance coverage for aid workers, including legal, medical, and psychological support.
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Committee recommendation
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#49 - Ensure comprehensive and affordable insurance covers aid workers' legal, medical, and psychological support.
The FCDO needs to make sure that insurance provided to aid workers by their employers covers legal advice and longer-term medical, including physiological support. The FCDO should work with insurance providers and delivery partners to ensure that appropriate and affordable packages of insurance are provided—including for local staff and volunteers, where possible. (Recommendation, Paragraph 96)
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terms: aid, insurance, worker
Committee recommendation
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#38 - Government must ascertain employer duty of care after aid worker casualties.
It is vital that, where aid workers delivering UK Official Development Assistance are casualties, the Government is able to ascertain whether the employer was diligent in its duty of care responsibilities. (Conclusion, Paragraph 75)
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#34 - Aid workers face unprecedented dangers and attacks, contravening international humanitarian law.
It has never been more dangerous to be a humanitarian aid worker. These workers put their lives on the line every day to protect others. Aid workers suffer direct intimidation and attacks in the field, as well as the impact of vicarious trauma through the processing of media. The disregard of aid worker safety by combatant parties is...
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#2 - Fifth Report - Afghanistan: UK support for aid workers and the Afghan people
We believe that the FCDO should consider what moral obligations it has to aid sector workers who deliver UK aid and FCDO aims and objectives. We urge the FCDO to take a broader, more holistic view of its duty of care to people working in the aid sector.
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Committee recommendation
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#1 - Fifth Report - Afghanistan: UK support for aid workers and the Afghan people
We understand that the FCDO has reasons for clearly defining and limiting its liability in respect of its contractual relationships with its external partners. However, we believe that events in Afghanistan have clearly illustrated that the Government’s policies should encompass much more than the legal aspects of duty of care as defined in its legal relationships with its...
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#5 - Prioritise urgent discussions with Israel to improve deconfliction and increase security for aid workers.
The UK Government must prioritise urgent discussions with the Israeli authorities to speed up security and improve the deconfliction systems so that aid workers can operate more safely. The UK Government should lead discussions with the international community to increase security for aid workers in the region.
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#3 - Deconfliction system for aid workers in Gaza is failing, causing harm.
The deconfliction system, whereby organisations notify the Israeli military about where they are going to be working and distributing aid, is not working, and aid workers have been killed and injured in their duties.
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#1 - Rising aid worker deaths and IHL breaches increasingly traded off by belligerents with deadly consequences.
Numbers of aid worker deaths are rising year on year and the situations where access to aid is deliberately impeded are also increasing. This violates the purpose of IHL: to protect civilians in a time of war. We see growing examples of where IHL is ignored or used to justify the restrictions to aid delivery. This has to...
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#3 - Fifth Report - Afghanistan: UK support for aid workers and the Afghan people
We recommend that the FCDO take steps to better identify and assess the particular risks facing aid workers so that it can respond more effectively to those aid workers when they are in need of support in countries or regions where there is acute instability or signs of a rapidly deteriorating security situation. FCDO staff in embassies in...
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#20 - Establish an independent central repository of evidence for IHL breaches against aid workers.
We recommend that the FCDO works with international partners to establish an independent central repository of evidence of breaches of IHL relating to the delivery of aid and attacks on aid workers. For this to be successful, the Government should undertake a consultation exercise with international and local delivery organisations, as well as UN bodies and legal experts....
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#19 - Call for UNSC Special Session on IHL disregard, humanitarian access, and aid worker safety.
We recommend that the UK works with the other UN Member States represented on the ministerial group for the safety of humanitarian aid workers to call for a Special Session of the UNSC to discuss the problem of disregard of IHL in the delivery of aid. This session should focus on hearing from aid workers themselves, and from...
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#24 - Push Israel to allow necessary aid into Gaza and protect healthcare workers and facilities.
Following the ruling by the International Court of Justice on 26 January, the UK Government must push Israel to allow the necessary aid into Gaza. The Committee has received no reassurance that healthcare workers and facilities are being protected, as is required under international humanitarian law, and the UK Government must insist that every measure is taken to...
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#43 - Donors and employers bear moral responsibility for mitigating risks to aid workers.
Whilst it is always the perpetrator who is responsible for the harm caused to victims, there is more that donors and employers could do to mitigate the risks. Indeed, it is the moral responsibility of donors to do all they can to remove or mitigate the risks to aid workers. (Conclusion, Paragraph 85)
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#35 - Malicious disinformation hampers aid worker safety and humanitarian aid delivery.
The safety of aid workers and aid delivery is further hampered by the spread of malicious disinformation online and in other forms of media. (Conclusion, Paragraph 71)
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#29 - Insufficient government action to prevent UK weapon components harming aid workers.
There is much more the Government could do to ensure that UK manufactured weapon components do not fall into the hands of those who may use them in attacks on aid workers and aid infrastructure. (Conclusion, Paragraph 61)
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#23 - Ensure UK can exercise universal jurisdiction over international crimes against aid workers.
The preamble to the Statute of the International Criminal Court recalls “the duty of every State to exercise its criminal jurisdiction over those responsible for international crimes.” At the domestic level, the UK must ensure that it can exercise universal jurisdiction over international crimes such as the killings of aid workers and the unlawful restrictions or prohibitions on...
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terms: aid, worker
PFD report
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Rachel Burke
An adventure company misrepresented ascent altitudes, leading to unsafe rates for altitude sickness prevention. The trek leader prioritized cost over urgent medical care and failed to appreciate illness severity due to inadequate training.
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PFD report
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Adrian King
British consulate/embassy communication channels were inadequate and unresponsive to family attempts to assist with medical treatment for an ill British national abroad, potentially impacting care outcomes.
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Committee recommendation
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#33 - Commemorate sacrifices of aid workers through memorial services and parliamentary updates.
We recommend that the Government takes appropriate opportunities to commemorate the sacrifices of the hundreds of aid workers every year who pay the ultimate price in the service of others. This should include representation at the memorial service in Westminster Abbey, speeches coinciding with the UN Secretary General’s update on Resolution 2730 (2024), and when updating Parliament on...
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#12 - UK has important role in supporting mechanisms for accountability of IHL breaches.
During an evidence session, the Minister was unclear about the extent of the application of approved approaches when it came to creative responses to the situation in Gaza. There are various mechanisms available at the international, regional and domestic levels for holding states and non-state actors to account for alleged breaches of IHL—breaches which include the killings of...
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#32 - Legislate binding due diligence for arms manufacturers and prosecute complicit directors.
The Government should legislate to provide for binding due diligence requirements on arms manufacturers. The Government should also make use of existing powers under the International Criminal Court Act (2001) to prosecute directors of arms manufacturers for complicity in war crimes such as those relating to the targeting of aid workers and facilities. (Recommendation, Paragraph 64) Practical protection...
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terms: aid, worker
Committee recommendation
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#28 - Apply sanctions to individuals for clear IHL breaches, with sufficient resources and evidence.
The Government must use its power to sanction individuals in response to clear breaches of IHL, such as unlawful killings of aid workers and restrictions on humanitarian aid and assistance. To do this the Government 52 must make sure that the Sanctions Team is sufficiently resourced and that the evidence threshold is set appropriately. (Recommendation, Paragraph 59)
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terms: aid, worker
PFD report
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Samuel Boon
The expedition lacked adequate risk assessments, failed to provide sufficient pre-trip information, neglected to formally assess participant fitness, and did not train leaders in managing critical medical conditions, alongside unverified evacuation procedures.
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PFD report
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Sousse (Tunisia)
Travel companies lacked board-level security advisors and failed to prominently display government travel advice, leaving customers potentially uninformed about terrorism risks in destination countries.
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Committee recommendation
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#39 - Adequately resource Charity Commission to investigate NGO duty of care to employees.
Where incidents relate to employees of UK-registered NGOs, it is essential that the Charity Commission is adequately resourced, and has the necessary powers, to investigate whether relevant organisations were diligent in their statutory obligations regarding their employees. (Recommendation, Paragraph 76)
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Committee recommendation
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#27 - Outline plans to reduce haulier wait times and ensure adequate 24-hour driver welfare facilities.
In its response to this Report, Defra should outline plans to reduce current wait times for hauliers at the border and outline how it intends to ensure that all drivers have 24-hour adequate welfare facilities. Any future border infrastructure and operational planning must explicitly include provisions for adequate driver facilities and realistic scheduling, to mitigate the human impact...
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Committee recommendation
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#26 - People's welfare and working conditions are central to successful border system design.
Implementing the BTOM goes beyond logistics and finance; people are central to a successful, biosecure border. The welfare, dignity, and working conditions of those delivering and using a border system must be integral to its design and operation. (Conclusion, Paragraph 44) 30
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IMB annual report
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Charter Flight Monitoring Team (CFMT) (2021)
The IMB Charter Flight Monitoring Team (CFMT) report for 2021 found that while many returnees were treated with respect and efforts were made for infection control, significant concerns persisted regarding the fairness and humanity of the removal process. Key issues included prolonged in-vehicle confinement for returnees, inconsistent use of restraints, and communication gaps due to a lack of...
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LGO / SPSO decision
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24-000-257 - Lancashire County Council
Summary: We will not investigate Ms X’s complaint about the Council’s handling of her insurance claim. This is because the substantive issue falls outside our jurisdiction due to the availability of a court remedy and there are insufficient grounds to warrant an investigation of how it handled the claim.
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Committee recommendation
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#34 - Publish long-term retention plans for pandemic family contact measures and current visit data for women
We recognise the damaging effect that the pandemic had on face-to-face contact for women and welcome the measures that were taken to ensure that women could maintain contact with their families. The Ministry of Justice should set out what measures, if any, that were introduced in response to the pandemic, will be kept on a long-term basis. Additionally,...
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Committee recommendation
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#33 - Families of women in custody are not routinely made aware of the Assisted Prison Visits Scheme
As discussed in previous chapters, we welcome the work being done to improve community alternatives to custody and to make these a viable option for women. However, for those who are sentenced to custody, given the small number of prisons, we know that women will often be placed far away from their homes, and the challenges this presents...
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