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Area-Based Child Protection Risk Analysis: Ukraine
Armed conflict, mass displacement, and deepening poverty have created a child protection crisis in Ukraine that differs sharply from one oblast to the next. This analysis uses 12 open-source 2024 publications and datasets — household surveys, displacement tracking, needs assessments, protection monitoring, and coordination records — to build an oblast-level composite risk profile.
From Iran to Gaza: Mapping the Humanitarian Shockwave of the US-Israeli War on Iran
Since the launch of the US-Israeli war on Iran, 4,148,100 people have been internally displaced across the region. In Iran, 1,348 civilians have been killed and over 17,000 injured since the start of the attacks carried out by Israel and the US.
Middle East Situation Update #2
Operation Epic Fury, launched jointly by the United States and Israel on 28 February 2026, marks the largest military escalation in the Middle East since 2003. Over 2,000 strikes have been conducted against targets in Iran, while Iranian retaliatory missile and drone salvos have struck seven neighbouring states. By 6 March, the UN declared the crisis a “major humanitarian emergency” affecting regions hosting nearly 25 million refugees. Civilian casualties, mass displacement, and humanitarian supply-chain disruptions are escalating daily across a theatre spanning from Beirut to the Strait of Hormuz.
Lebanon reports over 83,000 displaced as hostilies with Israel intensify
A massive Israeli military escalation struck Lebanon beginning 2 March 2026, following a large-scale projectile barrage from Lebanon toward northern Israel. Strikes targeted command centres in Beirut, the Bekaa Valley, and southern Lebanon, triggering mass civilian evacuations. By 4 March, Israel had launched a ground invasion of southern Lebanon and issued forced evacuation orders for the entire region south of the Litani River. At least 83,000 people have been displaced, with over 12,000 families sheltering in 300+ collective sites — dozens already at full capacity. At least 72 people have been killed (including 7 children) and 437 wounded.
Middle East Situation Update #1
This analysis traces the full arc from the December protests through to 28 February 2026, examining Iran’s land, air, rail and maritime crossing infrastructure in its current conflict-disrupted state. It provides a systematic assessment of the migration management frameworks and border policies of each of Iran’s seven neighbouring states — a critical factor for determining how many people from Iran may be able to seek safety, through which corridors, and under what protection frameworks.
Ukraine Energy Infrastructure: Winterization Response & Facility Status
An integrated analysis of systematic attacks on critical civilian energy infrastructure, facility-level operational status, and the humanitarian winter response for the 2025–2026 heating season — the most severe since the full-scale invasion of February 2022.
Occupied Palestinian Territory Situation Update
This situation update consolidates data from OHCHR, OCHA FTS, the INFORM Risk Index, ACLED, Eurostat, the Gaza Protection Monitoring System, and West Bank protection analysis to provide a comprehensive picture of the crisis as of February 2026. The findings are uniformly severe: 13 out of 15 protection risk categories are at maximum severity, the conflict probability score is 10 out of 10, and the territory now has the highest number of amputee children per capita in the world.