In Myanmar, the current aid blockade on all UN agencies, and the ban on international staff that humanitarian organizations have been facing since mid-August, is being justified by the government as necessary for “security reasons.”
Tag: humanitarian affairs
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The strongest empirical basis for the insecurity facing aid workers comes from the three-year Secure Access in Volatile Environments (SAVE) study.
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From Rwanda during the 1990s to Syria today, the mass killing of civilians strikes at the very idea of an international community and undermines the UN’s founding principles.
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Jean-Marie Guéhenno, President of International Crisis Group and former head of United Nations peacekeeping, discusses improving responses to contemporary conflicts.
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Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, discusses the interaction of the global refugee and migration crisis with humanitarian law and action.
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The securitized approach takes a risk in arguing that camps around Lake Chad could become breeding grounds for terrorists.
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Giulio Coppi, Humanitarian Innovation Fellow at Fordham University’s Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs, discusses technology and innovation in the humanitarian sector.
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There are a number of bigger issues here. Was Jolie-Pitt’s appointment singled out for such vitriolic critique because she’s a woman (why criticize her appointment and not Hague’s, when their credentials are similar?) or famous (academic snobbery perhaps), or considered insufficiently intelligent? Whatever the answer, it does not reflect well on the academy.
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At this stage, any hope for substantive progress resulting from the WHS likely rests with aid groups themselves. It is worth remembering that the WHS was never intended to be a state-centric instrument like the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, which commit countries to clear and measured progress towards a concrete set of targets.
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Critics have lost sight of the key message of the World Humanitarian Summit in the Secretary-General’s report: the plight of the people in humanitarian crises is not a fallout from global affairs; it is a global affair.
