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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 25–32.
Published: 01 September 2000
...David Rieff Copyright © 2000 World Policy Institute 2000 David Rieffis completing a book on humanitarian aid. He is the coeditor, with Roy Gutman, of Crimes of War: W hat the Public Should Know. Kosovo’s Humanitarian Circus David Rieff Only an idiot needs to be reminded...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 101–102.
Published: 01 September 2001
...David Rieff; Shashi Tharoor; Sam Daws Copyright © 2001 World Policy Institute 2001 CORRESPONDENCE Humanitarian Intervention To the editor: As one of the critics who has suggested that humanitarian intervention, the secretary the doctrine of humanitarian intervention...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 21–30.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Shashi Tharoor; Sam Daws Copyright © 2001 World Policy Institute 2001 Shashi Tharoor is interim head of the United Nations Department of Public Information. Sam Daws is first officer in the Office of the Secretary General of the United Nations. Humanitarian Intervention...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (3): 15–22.
Published: 01 September 2006
... on April 30, 2003. The Road Map outlined steps to be taken by the parties. It was an ambitious plan that dealt with internal Palestinian security, humanitarian assistance, democratic reform, freedom of movement for Palestinians, Israeli military redeployment, and settlement freeze—all culminating...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 1–10.
Published: 01 June 2000
... of Violence: Conflict Prevention in Intrastate Crises, K u m a ria n P ress, 1 9 9 9 . War and Mercy in Africa W illiam DeM ars In the modern history of humanitarian ac­ Western governments threw humanitarian tion dating from civilian relief during the organizations...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 71–80.
Published: 01 June 2014
... rates, and even lower levels of computer knowledge. And who is best placed to do this? Humanitarian organizations—often large, sclerotic bureaucracies designed half a century ago to provide food, shelter, and medicine on meager budgets and goodwill—may seem ill-suited to provide these new tools...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 41–46.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Nations must extend a measure of security deal with suggestions for a global peace­ to civilian populations and catalyze efforts keeping strategy, much less the heated de­ to lay the foundations for peace— rebuilding bate over humanitarian intervention. Our civil institutions, providing economic...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 18 (4): 107.
Published: 01 December 2002
...> Cuthbertson, Ian; “W hittling Liberties: Britain’s Not-So-Temporary Rieff, David, Shashi Tharoor, and Sam Daws; "Humanitarian Intervention” Antiterrorism Laws" (XVIII:4) (XVIII:3> Daws, Sam, and Shashi Tharoor...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 65–77.
Published: 01 September 2013
... a vaccination campaign, may have motives beyond the provision of health care, the activity itself, and the people who carry it out, are put at risk. In countries like Pakistan, humanitarian aid organizations have struggled to gain access and acceptance within communities already skeptical of the motives...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 101–112.
Published: 01 March 2001
... on humanitarian law. discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instiga­ The Torture Convention tion of or with the consent or acquiescence The legal heart of the 1998-99 Pinochet...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 2–5.
Published: 01 December 2001
.... The idea of col­ ficials, nongovernmental organizations, lective intervention, humanitarian or other­ business interests, churches, politicians are wise, is, in the abstract at least, repellent to all part of this ongoing effort. When it suc­ many governments. There is a good deal of ceeds, little...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 59–67.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., in the camp just across the border from where her home was destroyed, she feels secure, and “yes,” she is grateful to Turkey for taking her. For Turkey, it has been a year of complicated political maneuvers, humanitarian struggles, bureaucratic hassles, and the impromptu redefining of both its policy...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 87–90.
Published: 01 June 2017
... for recognition and care of rape victims in conflicts. National governments, the United Nations, local groups, and humanitarian organizations like the Red Cross or Médecins Sans Frontières struggle in the middle of crises to provide emergency post-rape care that meets World Health Organization standards...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 27–38.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., compared his $150 monthly government scholarship at Istanbul’s Marmara University to the full-ride scholarships of the Somalis. “They should focus on Turkey, on improving education for Turks,” he says. Furthermore, Turkey has its own desperate humanitarian crises. The city of Van, located...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 68–77.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of their own government. But the cabinet of President Hamid Karzai seems generally unable or unwilling to assist them. UN agencies have been known to step in when the problem becomes a humanitarian crisis, like this winter, but in general IDPs remain ignored and abandoned. The areas where they settle do...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 61–68.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., humanitarian catastro­ are timed to coincide with the arrival of the phe and political fragmentation.”1 And this Hutu workers who come in to the city. is a relatively optimistic report in the sense Sometimes they sing martial songs as they that it offers recommendations for putting move by. the current...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 62–72.
Published: 01 September 2011
... famine proportions on a biblical scale. Just across the Gulf of Aden, the famine in Somalia has captured the world’s attention with the likes of Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, and Madonna all campaigning for relief. Meanwhile, the looming humanitarian disaster in Yemen, a country with more than twice...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 17–24.
Published: 01 March 2003
..., international agreements, and con­ and has made it illegal for states to sponsor ventions— with the U.N. Charter at their or shelter them. But that still leaves open center. The conduct of war is governed by the question of whether war on state spon­ a large body of humanitarian law, most sors...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 66–71.
Published: 01 December 2003
.... We refer to a growing cate­ ments shortly after the dissolution of the So­ gory of refugees known in the chill jargon viet Union— in the conflict between Arme­ of humanitarian relief as “id ps,” or inter­ nia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, nally displaced persons. These are people...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 39–47.
Published: 01 June 2000
... the mili­ possible to have guns and butter, it is more tary goal— which is usually ethnic cleansing important to worry about domestic issues or — is likely to be unattainable without mas­ prosecute the conflict, are answered almost sive violations of international humanitarian by rote: the military...