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Humanitarian Policy Group (Source: http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg)

Advocates or aid workers? Approaches to human rights in humanitarian crises

7 March 2005 13:00-14:15 (GMT+00) - Public event, London

Tsunami - Acehnese man walks through debris left behind by a massive tsunami (Source: REUTERS/Yusuf Ahmad, Reuters - http://members.alertnet.org/thenews/photoalbum/1119864562.htm)
  • This meeting explored two contrasting approaches to human rights in humanitarian crises, examining the extent to which human rights and humanitarian action form a common, complementary or conflicting agenda. What is a rights-based approach to humanitarian programming? Is it preferable to an approach that views the role of humanitarian action as being to fill the void between human rights rhetoric and reality?

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    Speakers:
    Andrew Bonwick, Oxfam
    Anneka Van Woudenberg, Human Rights Watch
    Chair:
    James Darcy, ODI

     

  • An ODI Humanitarian Policy Group public event in the Human Rights and Poverty Reduction - Realities, Controversies and Strategies series.

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