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Syria Conflict: Our work since the crisis began (2015)

How we have responded to the conflict When conflict broke out in Syria in 2011, people began to flee their homes in search of safety for themselves and loved ones. Four years on, millions of families have been uprooted in what is one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. Our work has reached more than 7 million people, who have lost their homes and livelihoods as a result of the conflict.

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Islamic Relief: Syria Response 2016

Our response to the crisis over 12 months Our latest annual report from Syria shows that last year alone Islamic Relief supported more than 3 million people across Syria and neighbouring countries Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. With more than half of the Syrian population having fled their homes and 13.5 million people in desperate need of humanitarian support, Islamic Relief’s Syria response in 2016 totalled £43.5m

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Welcome to Islamic Relief

Who we are and what we do Islamic Relief is an independent humanitarian and development organisation with a presence in more than 40 countries around the globe. We have been fighting poverty and injustice since 1984. Every year, our work helps millions of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people – regardless of race, political affiliation, gender or belief.

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Climate Change Policy: Understanding & Responding

This contains Islamic Relief’s Climate Change Policy for 2019, and also background on understanding and responding to the climate crisis. It outlines recent global developments, Islamic Relief’s positions on loss and damage, finance, disability, gender, conflict and biodiversity, and the contribution of Islam to meeting the climate challenge.

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Climate Change Policy (2019)

This states Islamic Relief’s Climate Change Policy, revised for 2019. As a moral, social and environmental issue, climate change demands an urgent and global response and change on an unprecedented scale. Limiting warming to 1.5°C is the most effective way to use resources, with more investment where the consequences of climate breakdown are already being felt: in disaster risk management, adaptation and resilience building, and addressing loss and damage.

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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights policy

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) are integral to making progress in social and economic development and justice. This publication explains how effective SRHR policies and programmes can help combat maternal and new-born mortality, as well significantly improve health and wellbeing, especially for women, children and adolescents. The publication provides a theological analysis of the different Islamic positions on sexual and reproductive health issues. It also explains Islamic Relief’s stance on the matter, describing how the organisation provides demand- driven humanitarian aid. This stance policy seeks to ensure that Islamic Relief effectively meets the SRHR needs of the communities it serves, in a way that fulfils our faith-inspired mandate.

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Child Safeguarding Policy

Islamic Relief’s Child Safeguarding Policy aims to address protection concerns through a number of ways keeping in mind cultural, religious and traditional practices which do not expose children of all abilities to risk of violence, abuse and exploitation in all its forms. This document provides an introduction and insight into safeguarding of children by highlighting methods and approaches through which children are protected and tools which equip staff to deal with issues of child safeguarding.

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Gender Justice

This document focuses on the central components of IR’s Gender Justice Policy based on an Islamic framework. It outlines the organisation’s commitments to gender justice in all our humanitarian, development and advocacy work and our internal processes and procedures. Standing up for gender justice is a priority for IR because of its centrality to upholding human dignity, which is at the heart of everything we do.

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Hidden in Plain Sight: A Study of Child Labour and Human Trafficking in Rautahat, Nepal

This report is the result of a research carried out by Islamic Relief’s Global Advocacy division in collaboration with Islamic Relief Nepal, Islamic Relief Sweden and Rural Development Centre. It assesses and highlights the complex factors that underpin trafficking and child labour in Rautahat District in Nepal. The report highlights specific calls to action to diverse range of stakeholders that are integral to the global fight against trafficking and child labour.

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