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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 This study reviews the global increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations, including carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), alongside the accelerated climatic change and its slow onset effects (or events) between ...
Ilan Stavi, Ilan Stavi
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A critical post-positivist studies perspective on humanitarianism
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2017 A year after the First World Humanitarian Summit (Istanbul, May 23rd-24th 2016), this paper seeks to contribute to the analysis of some of the main challenges facing the international humanitarian system, which has over the last decades suffered from a ...
Itziar Ruiz-Giménez Arrieta
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Humanitarian Assistance and Forgotten Crises: UN World Summit and New Financial Mechanisms [PDF]
, 2006 Over 170 heads of governments and states, meeting at the September 2005 UN “World Summit“ in New York, agreed on a common responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. In international politics, the readiness to proclaim humanitarian targets is known to be greater than the collective ...
Reinhardt, Dieter, Rolf, Claudia
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The Politics of the Multi-Local in Disaster Governance
Politics and Governance, 2020 ‘Localisation’ became the new buzzword after the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016. However, the nature of the commitment to localisation since has been questioned. What is ‘the local’? How does localisation work in practice?
Samantha Melis, Raymond Apthorpe
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Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, 2000–2009: Massive Human Rights Violations and the Failure to Protect [PDF]
, 2010 This article reviews human rights violations in Zimbabwe from 2000 to 2009, under the rule of Robert Mugabe. It argues that these violations, including state-induced famine, illegal mass expulsions, and systemic rape, constituted crimes against humanity.
Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.
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Who is your constituency? The political engagement of humanitarian organisations
Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 2017 The World Humanitarian Summit of 2016 was an attempt to elevate humanitarian organisations more completely into the international political domain. Humanitarian organisations are agencies which provide life-saving assistance to populations in times of ...
Christopher Lockyear, Andrew Cunningham
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Intervención en Libia: La responsabilidad de proteger a debate
Cuadernos Electrónicos de Filosofía del Derecho, 2011 Resumen El trabajo analiza el origen y evolución del concepto de la responsabilidad de proteger, sus antecedentes en la década de los noventa del S. XX, su formulación en el Informe sobre La responsabilidad de proteger, y su consolidación posterior ...
Encarnación Fernández Ruiz-Gálvez
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Commitment to Change: What world leaders must promise at the World Humanitarian Summit [PDF]
, 2016 The World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul in May 2016 will take place in a world in which warring parties kill civilians without consequence, and in which El Nino highlights yet again the rising tide of disasters affected by climate change. The Summit also takes place in the shadow of Syria's conflict and the greatest displacement crisis of our age ...
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Post-disaster housing and management in Malaysia: a literature review [PDF]
, 2013 Purpose – Malaysia is still in the process of reorganising and restructuring disaster management policy, learning from the national and international experiences.
O'Keefe, Phil, Roosli, Ruhizal
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INVOKING THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: THE DEROGATION OF ITS PRINCIPLES AND IMPLEMENTATION [PDF]
Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 2019 The principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was unanimously endorsed in principle during the UN World Summit 2005. The principle reaffirms the state's responsibility in protecting its citizens, as well as proclaims the International ...
Bama Andika, Abdul Razaq Cangara
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