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Sir John Holmes

Are we really protecting civilians?

  • Mar 26 2013 - 11:16am   |  
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  Protection of civilians, particularly in contexts of armed conflict, has become a vital focus for humanitarian organisations, in addition to the providing the physical basics of life to people faced with disaster, natural or manmade. This is certainly justified. Civilians have no doubt always been the main victims of war, but this has never been more evident than now, when the internal conflicts in places like Darfur, Congo and... More >>

Rob Grace

Weekly News Roundup: Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-finding (March 22, 2013)

  • Mar 22 2013 - 5:32pm   |  
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[As part of its research and policy project on monitoring, reporting, and fact-finding (MRF), the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) at Harvard University aggregates news detailing recent developments in this domain. For more information about this project, visit the project’s webpage. For additional research materials, visit the HPCR Digital Library of Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-finding,... More >>

Sanoj Rajan

Arms Trade Treaty: A ray of hope to change the way world fights?

  • Mar 20 2013 - 12:00am   |  
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  As around 150 states started negotiating on the final terms of the proposed Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in New York on 18 March 2013, the expectations from the regulation on the global trade on conventional weapons are keeping high.  Started as a movement to find solution to the lethal consequences of the uncontrolled arms trade, the impact of ATT would be multifarious, which could change the lives of millions caught up in... More >>

Vincent Bernard

The Future of Humanitarian Action

  • Mar 11 2013 - 12:41pm   |  
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The following post first appeared as an Editorial in International Review of the Red Cross Volume 93 Number 884 December 2011. Any mentions below of “this edition of the Review” are in reference to Volume 93 Number 884 December 2011 which focused on The Future of Humanitarian Action. The Editor-in-Chief of the Review, Vincent Bernard will be co-hosting Live Web-Seminar 52, “Perspectives on the Future of Humanitarian... More >>