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How much humanitarian harm will the mission itself cause?
Above all, where the objective of using force is humanitarian, minimizing the humanitarian harms from intervention follows from the logic of necessity, as both a legal norm and moral principle.
Well-designed humanitarian intervention, as well as legal accountability for war crimes and atrocities, can send a strong signal to thugs and tyrants that they must reckon with the values that underpin international law.
For starters, parties on all sides of the fight have disregarded international human-rights law and violated basic humanitarian norms.
In fact, blocking humanitarian aid, attacking civilians, and targeting sites specially protected by international law have become strategies of war.
Last May, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling for all parties involved in Syria to respect international humanitarian law; now, Security Council members are accusing one another other of violating their own resolution.
The EU should make every diplomatic and humanitarian effort to bring together all participating parties and end the violence as soon as possible.
"We have common cultural and humanitarian interests, and we are not immune from other’s problems.
So far, the Trump administration has not been spurred to action by the humanitarian catastrophe confronting Syrian civilians.
In the days before Obama takes office, while a power vacuum persists in the US, the European Union has a unique role to play in international initiatives to end the violence and the unfolding humanitarian crisis.
The lack of agreement among the United Nations Security Council’s five permanent members is exacerbating humanitarian catastrophes in countries like Syria – not to mention allowing global warming to proceed largely unhindered.
The results are now clear: a humanitarian disaster and a grave challenge to the Arab Middle East as it has been constituted for the last century.
A victory for the IS in northern Iraq, or even just the capture of Erbil, the Kurdish Regional Government’s capital, would cause not just an unparalleled humanitarian disaster; it would also pose an enormous political threat to the greater Middle East and world peace.
But what is the alternative, other than accelerating chaos, mushrooming security risks, and serial humanitarian disasters?
Humanitarian agencies are left tinkering at the margins of education provision through a fragmented patchwork of small-scale projects.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, has challenged the generalized neglect of schooling in humanitarian emergencies.
In the case of the Rohingya crisis, insufficient funding has been compounded by wider failures by humanitarian agencies, including weak coordination, turf battles, and differences over which curriculum should be used – an apparently esoteric issue that has become entangled with questions about Rohingya children’s future status.
In fact, China’s cutoff of water data, despite the likely impact on vulnerable civilian communities, sets a dangerous precedent of indifference to humanitarian considerations.
This includes providing Turkey and other “frontline” countries enough financial support to allow the refugees living there to work and send their children to school; creating a common EU asylum agency and border force; addressing the humanitarian chaos in Greece; and establishing common standards across the EU for receiving and integrating refugees.
So far America has pledged $40 million in humanitarian funds for Gaza (just $30 a person), and about $86 million in security training money for the West Bank.
More crises have been erupting in more places, more breaches of international humanitarian and human rights law have been occurring, and more people have been displaced by conflict than has been the case for decades.
It did well to force Syria to give up its chemical weapons, and to authorize humanitarian access without the regime’s consent.
The EU’s commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis management, Christos Stylianides, a Greek Cypriot, staunchly backs reconciliation.
The entry of United Nations humanitarian personnel, has been delayed due to the government’s refusal to allow aid workers into the country without first applying for visas.
Moreover, the military leaders are dragging their feet on easing restrictions on the import of humanitarian supplies and allowing a UN assessment team into the country.
Conflict between nuclear states would unleash destruction so incomprehensible that, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, a humanitarian response would be impossible.
All of these contradictions are currently exploding in Syria, whose population is suffering a humanitarian catastrophe, while the world stands by, up to now unwilling to intervene.
In 2016, developed countries should agree to accept a combined total approaching a million refugees annually, either through resettlement or by issuing humanitarian, student, labor, and other visas.
So it is no surprise that, when addressing the region, politicians, diplomats, and the donor and humanitarian community typically focus on the here and now.
When I went to Darfur recently, I was particularly struck by those humanitarian workers who keep going back into an awful situation.
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