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Human Rights: The Challenge to Humanitarian Organizations |
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TITLE: Protecting Human Rights: The Challenge to Humanitarian Organizations
(Occasional Paper 35)
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ABSTRACT |
| This study reviews challenges faced by humanitarian organizations in protecting the rights of the populations for which they provide emergency assistance. An opening chapter questions the conventional wisdom that many of those challenges during the post-Cold War era are novel and unprecedented, emphasizing instead their continuities with Cold War antecedents. A second chapter examines practical strategies, some dating back to World War II, that comprise a concerted approach to protecting vulnerable populations and provides a number of examples of successful efforts and missed opportunities. | |
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A third chapter examines aid operations among belligerents and criminals, particularly camp activities for Rwandan refugees in Zaire (1994-1996) and reconstruction programs in Bosnia following the Dayton accords. Comparisons are drawn with similar dilemmas faced in refugee camps along the Thai/Cambodian border in the year 1979 and thereafter. A concluding chapter identifies several lessons for the future. The book is dedicated to the late Fred Cuny.
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Warfare, World War II, Cold War, post-Cold War, humanitarian principles, humanitarian space, humanitarian access, human rights, sovereignty, professionalism; Rwanda, Zaire, Cambodia, Thai/Cambodian border, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iraq, Kuwait; OCHA, UNHCR, DHA, WFP, ICRC, UNREO, NGOs, the Red Cross Movement.
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