Protecting Human Rights: the Challenge to Humanitarian Organisations

Author(s)
Frohardt, M, D Paul and L Minear
Publication language
English
Pages
134pp
Date published
01 Jan 1999
Publisher
Thomas J Watson Jr Institute for International Studies, Brown University.
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Conflict, violence & peace, Protection, human rights & security, Forced displacement and migration

The occasional paper seeks to provide aid personnel an analytical framework for understanding the protection challenge, reinforced by instructive examples from specific crises. Chapter 1 reviews the changed international geopolitical context within which today’s humanitarian action takes place. Chapter 2 examines practical strategies that have been devised for protecting
imperiled refugees, internally displaced persons, and other vulnerable groups. Focusing in a bit more narrowly, Chapter 3 explores the dilemmas inherent in the specific challenge of mounting aid operations among belligerents and criminals. Chapter 4 looks to the challenge of improving protection in the future.