 Humanitarian aid arriving by plane at Rinas Airport in Albania in the summer of 1999. Many organizations engaged in assisting refugees fleeing Kosovo.
A distribution point for humanitarian aid in Southern Kosovo in 1999. In this case, food donated by USAID to an international NGO is being distributed by a local NGO to recipient families. Note the cans of cooking oil and sacks of flour being broken down into family sized rations by distribution point volunteers.
 U.S. Army Sgt. Kornelia Rachwal gives a young Pakistani girl a drink of water as they are airlifted from Muzaffarabad to Islamabad, Pakistan, aboard a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter on the 19 October Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to humanitarian crises. The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity. It may therefore be distinguished from development aid, which seeks to address the underlying socioeconomic factors which may have led to a crisis or emergency. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1644x948, 214 KB)Humanitarian aid arriving at Rinas Airport (Albania) in 1999. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1644x948, 214 KB)Humanitarian aid arriving at Rinas Airport (Albania) in 1999. ...
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Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1728x1128, 353 KB)A distribution point for humanitarian aid in Southern Kosovo in 1999. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1728x1128, 353 KB)A distribution point for humanitarian aid in Southern Kosovo in 1999. ...
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Muzaffarabad (Urdu: مظÙرآباد, is the capital of the State of Azad Kashmir, located in the north of the state, which is the Pakistani-controlled part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. ...
Islamabad (Urdu: اسلام آباد (Meaning Abode of Islam)), is the capital city of Pakistan, and is located in the Potohar Plateau in the northwest of the country. ...
The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a versatile, twin-engine, tandem rotor heavy-lift helicopter. ...
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A humanitarian crisis or (in the language of history) a humanitarian disaster is a health or otherwise natural disaster which mortally threatens a very large number of people. ...
Suffering is any aversive (not necessarily unwanted) experience and the corresponding negative emotion. ...
Human dignity is an expression that can be used as a moral concept or as a legal term. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Aid. ...
Socioeconomics or Socio-economics is the study of the relationship between economic activity and social life. ...
Humanitarian response
Humanitarian aid is delivered by governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other non-governmental humanitarian agencies according to humanitarian principles set out in Resolution 46/182 of the United Nations General Assembly (for governments and UN agencies), and in Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief (for NGHAs). A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an organization which is not a part of a government. ...
There are a number of meanings for the term humanitarian. ...
The United Nations General Assembly (GA) is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations. ...
The Code of Conduct for International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief was drawn up in 1992 by the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response to set ethical standards for organizations involved in humanitarian work. ...
Funding They are funded by donations from individuals, corporations, governments and other organizations. The funding and delivery of humanitarian aid is increasingly being organized at an international level to facilitate faster and more effective responses to major emergencies affecting large numbers of people (eg. see Central Emergency Response Fund). The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) coordinates the international humanitarian response to a crisis or emergency pursuant to Resolution 46/182 of the United Nations General Assembly. Donation is a gift to a fund or cause, typically for charitable reasons. ...
The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) was launched on March 9, 2006, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to help those regions threatened with starvation, particularly the Horn of Africa, the Central African Republic, Ivory Coast and Chad. ...
The foundation of the U.N. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ...
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), is a organisation under the United Nations which was formed in December 1991 with the General Assembly Resolution 46/182. ...
The United Nations General Assembly (GA) is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations. ...
Standards The Sphere Project handbook, Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, which was produced by a coalition of leading non governmental humanitarian agencies, lists the following principles of humanitarian action: The Sphere Project[1] was launched in 1997 to develop a set of minimum standards in core areas of humanitarian assistance. ...
- The right to life with dignity
- The distinction between combatant and non-combatants
- The principle of non-refoulement
Non-refoulement The principle of non-refoulement concerns the protection of refugees from being returned to places where their lives or freedoms could be threatened. ...
References Larry Minear, (2002). The Humanitarian Enterprise: Dilemmas and Discoveries. West Hartford, Conn: Kumarian Press. ISBN 1-56549-149-1.
See also Humanitarian aid workers belonging to UN organisations, PVOs / NGOs or the Red Cross / Red Crescent have traditionally enjoyed both international legal protection, and de facto immunity from attack by belligerent parties. ...
The following is a timeline of key events in the history of humanitarian aid, international relief and development aid. ...
CARE (the full form Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere is almost never used) is one of the largest private international humanitarian organizations in the world, with programmes in over 72 countries. ...
The Anarchist Black Cross was originally called the Anarchist Red Cross. The band Redd Kross was originally called Red Cross. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Médecins Sans Frontières ( (help· info)) (English: Doctors Without Borders) is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental organisation best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic disease. ...
Mercy Corps logo Mercy Corps is a non-profit organization engaged in humanitarian aid and development activities. ...
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