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News, Events, Publications about Humanitarian Affairs

  • Panel Discussions 01-28-2020

    Ensuring that Sanctions Do Not Impede Humanitarian Action

    Sanctions can end up hindering humanitarian assistance and the provision of life-saving medical care in armed conflict, and forestalling that outcome was the subject of a January 28th policy forum at IPI, co-hosted with the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations.The discussion centered on a new IPI report, Making Sanctions Smarter: Safeguarding Humanitarian […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, Sanctions
  • Policy Papers 12-19-2019by Alice Debarre

    Making Sanctions Smarter: Safeguarding Humanitarian Action

    In recent decades, sanctions have increasingly been used as a foreign policy tool. The UN Security Council has imposed a total of fourteen sanctions regimes alongside those imposed autonomously by the EU, the US, and other countries. Despite efforts to institute more targeted sanctions regimes, these regimes continue to impede or prevent the provision of […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, Sanctions, UN Security Council
  • Speaker Events 06-21-2019

    On Eve of Pledging Conference, UNRWA Head Says Neutrality Essential for Doing Humanitarian Work

    The subject of the June 21st Speaker Series event at IPI was “The Risks of Politicizing Humanitarian Action: The UNRWA Perspective,” and the speaker, Pierre Krähenbühl, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), focused his comments on what he said was the most misunderstood of […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs
  • Panel Discussions 05-24-2019

    Preventing Attacks on Healthcare and Humanitarian Workers in Armed Conflict

    The growing number of attacks on humanitarian workers and the provision of health care in armed conflict has become what Christoph Heusgen, the Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, called “a weapon of warfare. The situation is very dire,” he told an IPI audience. “We must not accept that this becomes the new […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs
  • Issue Briefs 06-24-2019by Alice Debarre

    Safeguarding Humanitarian Action in Sanctions Regimes

    There are currently fourteen UN sanctions regimes, which member states are legally required to implement. Many of these are implemented in the context of armed conflict, where international humanitarian law outlines obligations to protect the provision of and access to principled humanitarian action. But despite efforts to make sanctions regimes more targeted, they continue to […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, UN Security Council
  • Policy Papers 04-26-2019by Albert Trithart

    Stuck in Crisis: The Humanitarian Response to Sudan’s Health Emergency

    Following decades of war, economic decline, and underinvestment, Sudan’s healthcare system entered a new phase of crisis in 2019 as peaceful protests led to the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir. Among those leading these protests were doctors and other medical personnel fed up with poor working conditions and medicine shortages. This speaks to the degraded […]

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    Health, Humanitarian Affairs
  • Speaker Events 03-01-2019

    Bangladesh FM: Conflict Is Not Between Myanmar and Bangladesh, But Between Myanmar and Its Own Population

    Some 18 months after 700,000 people fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state, camps in neighboring Bangladesh are now hosting more than one million refugees. Though Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed in November 2017 to a procedural framework for repatriation of these refugees—most of them Rohingyas from Rakhine state—the increased instability there has not allowed for safe, dignified, and […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs
  • Policy Papers 02-20-2019by Alice Debarre

    Delivering Healthcare amid Crisis: The Humanitarian Response in Myanmar

    Myanmar simultaneously faces multiple armed conflicts and crises, each with its own challenges. In Rakhine state, the government’s persecution of the Rohingya people has led to massive displacement, as have decades of armed conflict in Kachin and northern Shan states. Combined with chronic underdevelopment, these humanitarian crises have left people without access to adequate healthcare, […]

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    Health, Humanitarian Affairs
  • Issue Briefs 02-28-2019by Alice Debarre and Namie Di Razza

    Pursuing Coordination and Integration for the Protection of Civilians

    In recent years, the UN and its member states have promoted comprehensive approaches and integrated structures and processes to improve coherence and consistency between political peacekeeping, humanitarian, human rights, and development efforts undertaken by the UN and its partners. For POC specifically, coordination between the military, police, and civilian components of peace operations; between peace […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, Protection of Civilians
  • Issue Briefs 01-31-2019by Alice Debarre

    Providing Healthcare in Armed Conflict: The Case of Nigeria

    The humanitarian situation in Nigeria’s northeast is deteriorating, with more than 5 million people in need of healthcare and over 800,000 out of the reach of humanitarian actors. Given this level of need and the poor state of the healthcare system in northeastern Nigeria, humanitarian and other nongovernmental health actors play an important role.This issue […]

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    Health, Humanitarian Affairs
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the Global Observatory

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    January 22, 2021 by Darya Dolzikova
    The degree to which sanctions-lifting translates to economic relief depends in no small part on the willingness of the private sector to engage with the Iranian market.
    Analysis, iran, middle east, sanctions
  • Local Mediation and UN Peace Operations

    January 21, 2021 by Arthur Boutellis, Delphine Mechoulan, Marie-Joëlle Zahar
    Local mediation efforts can also help manage and resolve conflicts more durably and support the implementation of peace agreements.
    Analysis, peacebuilding, peacekeeping
  • “Downsizing Survivor Syndrome” in UN Peace Operations

    January 19, 2021 by Katharina P. Coleman
    To preserve mission productivity, the UN must do more to avoid downsizing survivor syndrome in its peace operations.
    Analysis, peacekeeping
  • The Roots of Pre-Election Carnage by Ugandan Security Forces

    January 15, 2021 by Sylvie Namwase
    It is time for Uganda to enact laws in keeping with international standards and redefine the relationship between police and military during law enforcement.
    Analysis, africa, elections
  • 2020 Editor’s Choice: Global Observatory Must Reads

    December 23, 2020 by the Global Observatory
    The editors have assembled some of 2020’s “must read” articles that were not about the pandemic, noteworthy either for their analysis, topic, timeliness, and/or popularity.
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    December 21, 2020 by Ilhan Dahir
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  • Safeguarding Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    December 10, 2020 by Joshua Wimpey, Markus Goldstein, Paula Gonzalez Martinez, Sreelakshmi Papineni
    COVID-19 has put all progress towards women’s empowerment made so far at risk.
    Analysis, coronavirus, women peace and security
  • Renewed Scrutiny of Citizenship Laws in the Gulf in COVID-19 Era

    December 8, 2020 by Dalya Al Alawi
    While the pandemic continues its march through the region, movements to change discriminatory citizenship laws have gained strength.
    Analysis, coronavirus, middle east
  • With Multilateral Efforts Bypassed in Nagorno-Karabakh, OSCE Struggles to Find Role

    December 3, 2020 by Stephanie Liechtenstein

    The ceasefire deal confirmed geopolitical realities and further strengthened Russian influence in the…

    Analysis, asia, frozen conflicts
  • Empowering “We the Peoples” in the UN’s 75th Year

    December 2, 2020 by Michaela Millender, Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
    The UN75 report produced ten key findings that highlighted what respondents felt were both immediate and long-term priorities.
    Analysis, united nations

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