Humanitarian Assistance

Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance to people who need help. It is usually short-term help until the long-term help by the government and other institutions replaces it. Among the people in need are the homeless, refugees, and victims of natural disasters, wars, and famines. Humanitarian relief efforts are provided for humanitarian purposes and include natural disasters and man-made disasters. The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity. It may, therefore, be distinguished from development aid, which seeks to address the underlying socioeconomic factors which may have led to a crisis …

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Wilson Center Canada · 19 March 2024 English

restore the country to the path of democracy, Compared to historical outbreaks of fighting in ensure the release of political prisoners, hold Myanmar’s long-running civil war, this moment the military …

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CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 8 March 2024 English

The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …

backbone of the international order and humanitarian assistance, unanimously agreed to by all nations at


CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 7 March 2024 English

The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …

backbone of the international order and humanitarian assistance, unanimously agreed to by all nations at


CCR: Canadian Council for Refugees · 23 February 2024 English

government’s actions to support a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Sudan and to provide humanitarian assistance to the millions of people displaced and otherwise affected by violence and insecurity, as

of the conflict in Sudan and to provide humanitarian assistance to the millions of people displaced and


Wilson Center Canada · 7 February 2024 English

The devastating predict the possible climate impacts to come, the floods in Saudi Arabia1 and Libya2, the wildfires3 severity, frequency6 and scale of these events raging across food-trapped Syria’s agricultural …

Syracuse University, NY, in Development and Humanitarian Assistance, with a certificate in Middle East Affairs


McMaster Health Forum · 30 January 2024 English

Prompts to assist in executing five strategies to be more efficient, systematic and transparent in providing evidence support

education: Education Endowment Foundation, b) humanitarian assistance: Evidence Aid, c) international development:


Wilson Center Canada · 30 January 2024 English

This policy brief considers four factors that explain US and the International Refugee System when the US chooses to act favorably, consistent with international and domestic laws, to promote The …

spent on bilateral REFUGEE PROTECTION humanitarian assistance to governments and non-governmental organizations


Canadian Council for International Cooperation · 29 January 2024

In addition, we call on the government to take steps to: Recommendation 2: Commit that international assistance to Ukraine will be additional to stable or growing assistance to the rest …

working in international development and humanitarian assistance. With over 100 members, we work alongside million people in 72 countries will require humanitarian assistance and protection in 2024, and more people


Yellowhead Institute · 24 January 2024

coupled with the facilitation Convention in a desperate attempt to curtail the current of humanitarian assistance, all demonstrate the precise carnage, are the ones “weaponizing” and “abusing” the law. [

desperate attempt to curtail the current of humanitarian assistance, all demonstrate the precise carnage, are


Wilson Center Canada · 14 January 2024 English

The devastating predict the possible climate impacts to come, the floods in Saudi Arabia1 and Libya2, the wildfires3 severity, frequency6 and scale of these events raging across food-trapped Syria’s agricultural …

Syracuse University, NY, in Development and Humanitarian Assistance, with a certificate in Middle East Affairs


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