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Trump’s Assault on RefugeesLONDON – The decision by US President Donald Trump’s administration to stop funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has politicized humanitarian aid, threatens to add yet more fuel to one of the world’s most combustible conflicts, and jeopardizes the futures of a half-million Palestinian children and young people.
This is good news, but we will need to do more to offset the coming loss of US support at a time when budgets are already strained by the fast-increasing humanitarian needs of the world’s other 60 million displaced people, including more than 20 million refugees (a post-World War II record).
But, in response it is argued that the practice of defining refugees’ descendants as refugees is in accordance with international conventions governing refugee rights, as well as with international human rights and humanitarian law and the approach taken by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
The program – at a cost of $263 million – is set to be the largest education humanitarian effort ever mounted during an emergency.
The uncertain fate of programs such as Lebanon’s underscores why it is a tragedy that education receives only 2% of humanitarian aid – and why it is so important to establish a permanent fund for education in emergencies.
And, after a review of the Rwanda debacle, 400 NGOs and UN organizations working in 80 countries got together in the Sphere Project to develop a common humanitarian mandate and handbook of standards outlining the minimum performance required of any NGO working in a disaster zone.
By demanding quantifiable results, donors may force program managers to choose easily achieved targets over less measurable actions that accord with sound humanitarian principles.
The greatest danger is that humanitarian relief will be tailored to meet donors’ demands, rather than actual needs.
Until recently, the record on evaluating responses to humanitarian emergencies has been patchy at best.
A 2004 report by the Humanitarian Policy Group cited a survey carried out in Ethiopia after UN agencies said that humanitarian efforts had averted widespread famine in 2000.
The HPG therefore recommended long-term monitoring of future humanitarian responses, and said that success or failure should be judged in a broad context rather than by a narrow focus on a specific project.
NGOs do the lion’s share of the world’s humanitarian work, and some mistakes are inevitable.
But as we deepen our experience of humanitarian relief and development, we must learn the lessons of the past and understand how much more there is to know.
The priorities must be the stabilization of North Africa, humanitarian aid, and long-term support for political, economic, and social progress.
If the world, and especially the American people, believe that removing Assad’s chemical weapons will end his government’s slaughter of innocent men, women, and children, then all semblance of rational thought, humanitarian care, and regard for national interest has been thrown to the wind.
But the compelling moral case for a humanitarian intervention is increasingly being reinforced by sound raisons d’état.
We combine humanitarian aid and support for institution-building and good governance with crisis-management capacities, technical and financial assistance, and political dialogue and mediation.
Our success with Operation Artemis, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the EU intervened in 2003 after violent clashes and a humanitarian crisis in Bunia, helped prepare us to mount our EUFOR operation in Chad and the Central African Republic and EUNAVFOR Somalia, which South Africa has expressed an interest in joining.
In Somalia, we are considering security-sector reform measures to complement EUNAVFOR Somalia and the humanitarian aid and political support that we are already providing.
One important proposal is a global humanitarian platform that would fund the provision of education – alongside food, protection, shelter, and health care – during emergencies.
Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and intervention in Syria have challenged principles of humanitarian interventionism such as the “responsibility to protect” (R2P); and a rising China is confronting the West’s supremacy – in hard- and soft-power terms – in the post-war global order.
Specialists in human rights, conflict resolution, humanitarian relief, and democracy-building tend to see themselves as coworkers striving toward a 'holistic' solution, and those in need as requiring all those elements in their historical cure.
Take humanitarian action and human rights.
Most activists in these fields, not to mention their allies in private philanthropies and international organizations like the UN, believe that they need to work together - that humanitarian emergencies are the product of human rights crises and the former cannot be seriously addressed unless and until the latter are as well.
In the absence of some military force to protect them (in itself a mixed blessing, as interventions from Somalia to Bosnia demonstrated), these humanitarian groups must negotiate access with criminal warlords, oppressive governments, and war criminals.
A humanitarian, by contrast, may want to feed a population, knowing full well that food aid could strengthen the oppressive regime.
In humanitarian crises, you do what is possible – usually too little, and often too late.
Yet Mbeki himself has spoken of the huge humanitarian “burden” on his country as a result of the chaos next door.
The League is necessary, argues McCain, because in matters vital to the US, such as fighting Islamic terrorism, humanitarian intervention, and spreading liberty, democracy, and free markets, the US and its democratic partners must be able to act without permission from the United Nations (i.e., from Russia and China).
A paradigmatic example is the war in Syria: the horrible humanitarian tragedy that has afflicted the country’s population for more than seven years fueled a refugee crisis that shook the foundations of the European Union.
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