Essential Reading for Fellowship

Foundational Documents

• Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Nomenclature

• Glossary of Humanitarian Terms – WHO
• United Nations System – Graphic

Infectious Diseases

• WHO – Communicable Disease following Natural Disasters
• WHO – Position Paper on Cholera vaccine
• WHO – on Influenza Vaccine
• WHO – on Measles Vaccine
• WHO – on Meningococcal Vaccine
• WHO – Mumps Vaccine
• WHO 2007 – Standardized Tx of Bacterial Meningitis in Africa

Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

• Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees – UNHCR
• NRC – Status of Internally Displaced Persons – 2014
• UNHCR – Epidemic Preparedness Response in Refugee Camp Settings

Reports on Humanitarian Assistance

• Global Humanitarian Assistance Reports – 2011
• Global Humanitarian Assistance Reports – 2012
• Global Humanitarian Assistance Reports – 2013
• ALNAP State of Humanitarian Progress – 2012