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The Haitian government, UN agencies, and the humanitarian community are moving quickly to put treatment and preventive measures in place.
Those criteria must include the parties’ willingness to allow humanitarian aid to flow to all Syrian civilians under their control and an end to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including systematic targeting of medical personnel, starvation of populations under siege, and executions of war prisoners.
When the Syrian conflict began, it was an internal matter, with UN involvement limited to humanitarian and refugee issues.
Doctors Without Borders introduced the concept of "the right of intervention" in humanitarian disasters, bypassing the strictures of traditional international law.
The international system rather quickly adopted (and transformed) this notion, and numerous humanitarian military interventions followed--in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, and Sierra Leone.
The Kosovo intervention was also notable in another way: its legitimation was entirely moral in character, responding to the Milosevic regime's ethnic cleansing campaign, which had created a real threat of yet another immense humanitarian disaster.
But, however compelling the cause of humanitarian military intervention, such actions must be brought under the umbrella of the UN Charter.
What the world needs is a system of legal injunctions--bilateral and multilateral agreements, as well as appropriate monitoring and supervisory institutions--to regulate the use of force for humanitarian reasons.
Legal restraints on humanitarian intervention are necessary because dictators too often use it to justify criminal aggression.
In this wider and uncertain context, the need to regulate humanitarian military intervention looms large.
Economic and humanitarian support should thus continue to flow, though with close oversight of how it is used.
Just 39% of the $662 million in urgent education aid sought by United Nations humanitarian agencies this year has been funded.
Instead of delivering aid through unreliable, underfunded annual humanitarian appeals, donors need to provide predictable multi-year funding, as the United Kingdom has done.
The Rising Power of NGO'sWhen Human Rights Watch declared last January that the Iraq War did not qualify as a humanitarian intervention, the international media took notice.
These measures will require international cooperation and investment in development, peace keeping, humanitarian assistance, and migration management.
Surely there is room across divides of party and nation to address these pressing humanitarian needs, which otherwise would only fuel future political trouble.
Pursuing these seven principles, described in greater deal elsewhere, is essential in order to calm public fears, reduce chaotic flows of asylum-seekers, ensure that newcomers are fully integrated, establish mutually beneficial relations with countries in the Middle East and Africa, and meet Europe’s international humanitarian obligations.
Both houses are now controlled by Republicans, who tend to deride international organizations and resist offering foreign aid, even for humanitarian purposes.
Abandoning humanitarian objectives and moral obligations, and focusing only on US interests, is no way to develop an effective – much less fair – foreign policy.
The UN will play a central role in the reconstruction of a working government in that country, and in coordinating humanitarian assistance for the Afghan people.
The UN has shown its value in global environmental management, international trade, state building and reconstruction, and humanitarian assistance.
More than three quarters of Venezuela’s 31 million people want to free themselves from the stranglehold of their rulers, a small group of no more than 150 mafia-like figures (mostly military) who have hijacked the country’s democracy, robbed it blind, and created a devastating humanitarian crisis.
Such a dialogue would have focused on pushing Venezuela’s regime to comply with the commitments mediated by the Vatican last autumn, including holding free and fair elections this year, releasing political prisoners, restoring the National Assembly’s constitutional powers, and accepting humanitarian assistance.
The question there is how to resurrect it – a challenge complicated by the country’s ongoing hyperinflation and humanitarian catastrophe.
Given the humanitarian crisis, Venezuela needs a rapid economic recovery, which is unlikely unless property rights are credibly reestablished.
American participation, if not leadership, is indispensable to international cooperation in areas like global trade, climate action, and responses to all manner of crises, whether natural, humanitarian, or nuclear.
Anger over Scotland’s decision in 2009 to release Megrahi, who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, ostensibly on humanitarian grounds, further poisoned Libya’s relations with the West.
Over the last year, an unprecedented humanitarian effort has pulled Somalia back from the brink of famine.
Humanitarian aid remains essential.
But humanitarian aid, which is often volatile and overwhelmingly short-term, will not break the deadly cycles of drought, hunger, and poverty.
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