Red Cross and Red Crescent, humanitarian agency with national affiliates in almost every country of the world. The Red Cross movement began with the founding of the International Committee for the Relief of the Wounded (now the International Committee of
To these must be added those dealing with more strictly humanitarian affairs: the curtailing of the international drug trade, the protection of women, child welfare, the abolition of slavery, and the refugee problem. Several of these were in themselves complex organizations, comprising regular ...
In addition, the post of the Chief Security Adviser in Pakistan is proposed to be reclassified to the D-1 level as, in termsofsize,complexity and degree of responsibility, in combination with a complex humanitarian emergency, the security management system in[...] ...
Drawing on case studies from around the world, this program focuses on progressive efforts being made by businesses to unite profits and principles. Issues under consideration include the practice of social responsibility through ethical investment policies and codes of conduct, the human and ...
The challenge is to find an acceptable balance between upholding core principles of international humanitarian law in the Syrian context, and recognition that without a return to economic growth and security, those principles, however worthy we may consider them to be, will matter little to those ...
and the Spanish and British had weird federalisms based on monarchical principles. The Dutch and the Americans both had good models to emulate, but they didn’t have any African colonies and the idea of African colonies federating with Dutch or American states was out of the question in the ...
17 Wheeler notes that "We must learn to think of ourselves first as humanitarians and only secondarily as technicians," and that we should, as the astronauts did when they looked at the world from space, take a "long and transforming look at our profession."17 Clement A. Hiebert, MD,...
an honest and thorough debate on history will enable us to move towards reconciliation on the basis of truth and remembrance. daccess-ods.un.org 我 们认为,对历史进行坦率和 透彻的辩论将使我们能够 朝着建立在真相与铭记基础之上的和解迈进。 daccess-ods.un.org [...] knowledge and experience...
Ecuador’s participation in the Belt and Road Initiative is another important milestone. We believe that the Belt and Road Initiative has provided an open space for comprehensive cooperation principles of international law. It will promote trade, tourism, and investment on the basis of mutual respect...
humanitarian nuns, or outstanding female artists. Maybe the selection of prominent bloody endings was intended to instill fear of power into impressionable little girls, keeping them in their place. Or maybe it just happens to be historically accurate that the few women who made it into the his...