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Humanitarian Impacts of Economic Sanctions on Burundi |
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TITLE: The Humanitarian Impacts of Economic Sanctions on Burundi
(Occasional Paper 29)
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ABSTRACT |
| In the process of its global review of the humanitarian impacts of economic sanctions (see Occasional Paper 31), the H&W Project was encouraged by UN and other officials to examine the evolving situation in Burundi, where regional sanctions had been applied in July 1996. The Project retained two doctors who carried out interviews in the Great Lakes region in early 1997 with more than 50 officials from governments and aid agencies. Sanctions had been imposed on Burundi by the governments of the region, initially without any exemptions of humanitarian essentials. While the UN did not specifically endorse the measures, it was, at the outset at least, seen as broadly supportive of the regional initiative. | |
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The report includes recommendations that address the socioeconomic and political impacts of such sanctions as well as their consequences for humanitarian activities. It encourages the UN system to be more engaged in the shaping of regional initiatives.
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humanitarian access, coordination, local institutions, economic sanctions, humanitarian exemptions, regional organizations; Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda; UN, UN Security Council, DHA, UNICEF, UNDP, WFP, FAO, OAU, NGOs, the Red Cross Movement.
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