Search results
May , http://msf-crash.org/fr/publications/acteurs-et-pratiques-humanitaires/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go-medecins-sans (accessed 5 October 2021 ). Butler , D. ( 2018 ), ‘ WHO Says Africa’s Latest Ebola Outbreak Is Not an International Emergency ’, Nature , 17 October , www.nature
and nature of the simultaneous occurrence of armed conflict and widespread severe food insecurity, including mass starvation. These cases were chosen because they are among the conflicts which have produced extreme and protracted cases of mass starvation in this century. They also exemplify PM systems. The paper begins by briefly outlining the PMF’s key concepts and assumptions before addressing three key research questions. 1. How do PM systems cause mass starvation
that the current processes must be analysed in relation to UNRWA’s long-standing financial insecurity and the extent to which the Agency has repeatedly ‘shrunk’ the group of Palestinian refugees considered to be a priority in addition to the nature of services it has been willing or able to deliver to these selected recipients. In the second section, I trace the contours of the #DignityIsPriceless campaign launched by UNRWA in January 2018. I focus on this campaign given its hypervisibility in the international public sphere as UNRWA
argues that such an act of quantification is far from certain. In fact, ‘trafficked people’ is an incredibly difficult phenomena to measure given the size and nature of population flows and the contestation over the definition of trafficking itself ( Merry, 2016 : 138). The lack of consensus over the definition of humanitarian phenomena is a central theme to research that outlines the technical problems of quantification (see Randall et al
, civil wars and concentration camps. If there was ever a time in history where there was no regard for either the principle of mercy or the value of human life, it was the ‘short twentieth century’ (1914–91) – far more than the last thirty years. The supposed decline in humanitarian norms is assumed to have resulted from the changing nature of contemporary conflicts, which are now intra-, rather than inter-, national. It is true that most post-Cold War conflicts have been
around OFAC’s use of the term ‘partnership’. The OFAC website was updated in March 2018 to state: ‘Partnerships and partnership agreements between NGOs and the Government of North Korea or other blocked persons that are necessary for NGOs to provide authorized services are not permitted without a specific license from OFAC.’ However, as several interviewees pointed out, the nature of the DPRK means all NGOs must work with government bodies of some capacity. There was also confusion surrounding UNSC applications, particularly when the sanctions were fairly new
research resource, in Birmingham, in NGO history; 3 this has since ceased to be available online – reflecting acutely the fleeting nature of digital records ( Hilton et al. , 2013 ). More recently, the University of Manchester has opened the Humanitarian Archive 4 which collects the private papers and archives of individual humanitarians and smaller humanitarian organisations. Humanitarian archives have always been key to the sustainability of any claims of accountability and transparency ( Roddy et al
gender equality. In this paper, we clarify ten common misconceptions about conflict and displacement-related sexual violence against men and boys based on existing evidence and our collective field experience in twenty-seven countries as humanitarian aid workers and academics. The ten misconceptions relate to the nature and scope of sexual violence against men and boys, its gendered impact on survivors, and the development of effective humanitarian responses to
functions. Meza identifies this as a pedagogical lens to psychosocial support through which displaced persons are taught to recognise their own ‘resilience’ and which separates their position from political and/or redistributive solutions, while the research in Tacloban demonstrates the learned nature of the resilience concept and the processes of filtering, interpretation and syncretism in which this humanitarian discourse is embedded. A second point of comparison between the texts lies in the social meanings given – or in the case of Colombia, denied – to resilience
focuses on the nexus of displacement with another emerging global phenomenon: the changing nature of work. Digitalisation and the digital economy are at the forefront of these transformations. This includes online gig work and how innovations in technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and robotics are driving forward rapid changes in most fields of work. Economies are increasingly becoming digital and web-based, reshaping labour markets and employment