A decade of reforms have aimed at improving the humanitarian system already in place, ignoring the underlying assumptions and institutions on which it operates.
Tag: humanitarian affairs
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With the first ever World Humanitarian Summit approaching in May in Istanbul, can the Secretary-General help shape the global humanitarian agenda?
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Elizabeth Ferris, Research Professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, discusses the priorities for humanitarians in the Syrian peace talks.
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Naz Modirzadeh, Director of Harvard Law School’s Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, discusses the challenges that face humanitarians working within new counterterrorism and countering violent extremism frameworks.
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With 20 million refugees and 40 million internally displaced people globally, International Rescue Committee President David Miliband says the escalating crisis requires not just more, but also better, humanitarian aid.
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Even if refugee youth are put on a track to secondary and higher education, what’s next in store remains unclear.
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The former head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen, Cedric Schweizer, and ICRC Senior Adviser Claude Bruderlein discuss their experiences of humanitarian negotiations on the frontlines of conflicts.
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Where the UN sees an opportunity to carry out its humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding activities as part of an integrated approach, MSF and other NGOs have warned that such efforts could compromise the fundamental humanitarian principles of impartiality, neutrality, and independence and direct resources towards long-term rather than acute needs.
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One of the most straightforward and effective measures that could be adopted to fulfill the responsibility to protect is the provision of safe passage and asylum to those fleeing Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s barrel bombs and the so-called Islamic State’s beheadings.
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William Lacy Swing, Director General of the International Organization for Migration, discusses ways to manage increasing global migration flows in a humane manner.
