Humanitarian Advocacy and Darfur

This meeting launched HPG Policy Brief 28 and had the intention of using the experience of Darfur to illustrate wider dilemmas concerning humanitarian advocacy in complicated politicised environments. It considered the challenges that humanitarian organisations face when undertaking advocacy on high profile political emergencies; the responsibility that organisations have to speak out on the crisis in Darfur; whether they have the competency or credibility to call for specific measures; and whether advocacy on political emergencies was consistent with the humanitarian principle of neutrality.