Craving care in refugee camps

2021 ◽  
pp. 204382062110202
Author(s):  
Aqeel Abdulla
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
International Aid ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Somali Women ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Relationship

Engaging refugees in development projects by the United Nations, or any other international aid organisation, should not be an elitist practice that presumes a hierarchy that places the organisation at the top and refugees at the bottom. For both ethical and pragmatic reasons, such projects and initiatives should take into consideration culture, religion, geography, politics, and social aspects when planning and delivering their services, otherwise their outreach and success will be hindered. This commentary looks at the emotional toll of diaspora on the Somali women interviewed for Bagelman and Gitome’s article, ‘Birthing Across Borders: “Contracting” Reproductive Geographies’, and contemplates the effects that this potentially has on the relationship between these women and health professionals in Dadaab, as well as their relationship with traditional Somali midwives.

Palestine at the UN: The PLO and UNRWA in the 1970s

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Irfan
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Near East ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Palestine Liberation Organization ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
International Issue ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) during the 1970s, the period when the PLO reached the zenith of its power in Palestinian refugee camps throughout the Levant. Based on archival United Nations (UN) and UNRWA documents, as well as the PLO's own communications and publications, the article argues that the organization approached its relationship with UNRWA as part of a broader strategy to gain international legitimacy at the UN. That approach resulted in a complex set of tensions, specifically over which of the two institutions truly served and represented Palestinian refugees. In exploring these tensions, this article also demonstrates how the “question of Palestine” was in many ways an international issue.

scholarly journals A working visit to Chad's refugee camps for the people of Western Darfur

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-19
Author(s):  
Nick Rose
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Aid ◽  
Central Intelligence Agency ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Intelligence Agency ◽  
The People ◽  
The United Nations

In 2004 at least 200000 people from Darfur in Western Sudan are thought to have died in a wave of what has been alleged to have been ethnic cleansing (Flint & De Waal, 2008). And in April 2008 it was reported that a total of over 300000 people might have died in the (then) 5-year Darfur conflict. During the period of the alleged genocide, nearly a quarter of a million refugees (Central Intelligence Agency, 2009) crossed the nearby border into Chad, where they remain in a dozen or so camps looked after by the United Nations and international aid organisations. These camps are strung along the frontier, in remote semi-desert locations that are sustainable only with United Nations support. Many of the camps no longer take new refugees, and are in effect transplanted communities from nearby Darfur, their social and leadership structures mirroring those of the communities that were torn apart by war. Even place names have been transplanted, to suggest a kind of normality.

The UN Secretary-General and the Security Council

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Organizational Relationships ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
International Mediation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Relationship

The United Nations Secretary-General and the United Nations Security Council spend significant amounts of time on their relationship with each other. They rely on each other for such important activities as peacekeeping, international mediation, and the formulation and application of normative standards in defense of international peace and security—in other words, the executive aspects of the UN’s work. The edited book The UN Secretary-General and the Security Council: A Dynamic Relationship aims to fill an important lacuna in the scholarship on the UN system. Although there exists an impressive body of literature on the development and significance of the Secretariat and the Security Council as separate organs, an important gap remains in our understanding of the interactions between them. Bringing together some of the most prominent authorities on the subject, this volume is the first book-length treatment of this topic. It studies the UN from an innovative angle, creating new insights on the (autonomous) policy-making of international organizations and adding to our understanding of the dynamics of intra-organizational relationships. Within the book, the contributors examine how each Secretary-General interacted with the Security Council, touching upon such issues as the role of personality, the formal and informal infrastructure of the relationship, the selection and appointment processes, as well as the Secretary-General’s threefold role as a crisis manager, administrative manager, and manager of ideas.

India and the United Nations

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manu Bhagavan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Grand Strategy ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
Permanent Member ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Jawaharlal Nehru ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses India’s association with the United Nations. Guided by the vision of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, the country initially had a highly successful grand strategy guiding its foreign policy that placed that UN at the centre of its diplomatic efforts. Things took a sharp downward turn, however, during the administration of Indira Gandhi, and the relationship has lacked cohesion and meaningful direction ever since. In recent times, India has sought to become a permanent member of the Security Council and has relatedly but unsuccessfully attempted to wield influence, though large questions about its purpose and goals remain. Contemporary crises, though, now make the answers ever more urgent.

scholarly journals Reflexive subjects: Exploring the narrative habitus of self-aware interviewees

Fabula ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 92-111
Author(s):  
Linda Martina Mülli
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Self ◽  
Research Setting ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The notion of ‘self-aware interviewees' contains two features that emerged when studying early career professionals in the United Nations headquarters in Geneva and Vienna. First, it entails considerations on the researcher's positionality vis-à-vis the ‘reflexive subjects' encountered in the field. It also considers the benefit of ‘para-ethnographic sensibilities' and the related re-negotiation of the relationship informant-ethnographer. Second, it addresses the narrative habitus encountered among UN neophytes. This paper ultimately states that analyzing the self-aware interviewees' (auto-)narrations implies reflections on power relations in a particular research setting.

The United Nations and the Responsibility to Rebuild

2021 ◽  
pp. 274-287
Author(s):  
Alex J. Bellamy
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Relationship

Peacebuilding and statebuilding were integral parts of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) when the principle was first articulated in 2001. But since 2005 they have developed quite separately, creating a gap between the theories and practices of protection and peacebuilding. The effects of this gap are not just theoretical but practical too. The UN’s failure to properly follow through with rebuilding support in Libya contributed to that country’s descent into chaos and civil war, especially after 2013. Likewise a failure to incorporate atrocity-prevention concerns into ongoing peacebuilding efforts in places like Sri Lanka and the Central African Republic meant that the UN’s field presences did not do all they could to prevent atrocities or protect vulnerable populations. This chapter examines the relationship between peacebuilding and R2P in the UN context. It shows how the two were conceived as being mutually supporting activities but were separated during the UN’s wider deliberations on reform. It describes the effects of this gap between peacebuilding and protection before arguing that the two agendas are closely aligned and should be integrated. And it points to practical work to ensure that atrocity prevention is mainstreamed into peacebuilding efforts, and vice versa.

MENELISIK PENGAKUAN DAN PERLINDUNGAN HAK-HAK ASASI POLITIK PASCA PERUBAHAN UUD 1945

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-246
Author(s):  
Bayu Jatmiko Jatmiko
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
State Law ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Relationship

The concept of the relationship between state law and human rights (HAM) is an important thing in the concept of a modern state. Although the theory of thinking about human rights is divided universally or in particular, Indonesia is trying to escape from this debate. So that historically the regulation of human rights by the Indonesian state actually preceded the arrangement of human rights by the United Nations (UN), then included it in the articles governing Political Rights

The Attribution Decision Adopted by the opcw’s Conference of States Parties and Its Legality

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 664-681
Author(s):  
Alexander Orakhelashvili
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Chemical Weapons ◽  
Chemical Weapons Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Relationship

This contribution examines the legal merit of the Decision Addressing the Treat from Chemical Weapons, adopted by the 89th Session of the General Conference of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (‘opcw’) on 27 July 2018. While relating to matters of high political importance, this Decision still raises important issues of the constitutionality of international organizations’ use of their delegated powers. This contribution pursues the detail of this matter, by focusing, among others, on the scope of the opcw’s authority under the Chemical Weapons Convention and the relationship between the opcw and the United Nations.

International Law, the ECHR, and the EU

2021 ◽  
pp. 212-312
Author(s):  
Jan Wouters ◽  
Michal Ovádek
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Intergovernmental Organization ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Eu

This chapter focuses on the relationship between international law, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and the EU. International law features with respect to the EU both as an object of the EU's internal fundamental rights regime and as a source of human rights obligations. Whereas the latter reflects the original conception of international human rights law, the former is capable of generating unease due to the scope for contravening the principle of supremacy of international law. Moreover, although the ECHR can, in principle, be regarded as international law, it is of special importance to the legal order of the EU and its Member States, in addition to representing the most developed regional regime of human rights protection in the world. The specific character of the EU as neither a typical international (intergovernmental) organization nor a state often complicates the relationship with international law further. Nonetheless, Article 3(5) TEU requires the EU to contribute, in its international relations, ‘to the protection of human rights as well as the strict observance and the development of international law, including the respect for the principles of the United Nations Charter’. The chapter then looks at other Council of Europe instruments and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD).

13. Exclusion from asylum

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Clayton ◽  
Georgina Firth ◽  
Caroline Sawyer ◽  
Rowena Moffatt ◽  
Helena Wray
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Crimes Against Humanity ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Relationship

Course-focused and comprehensive, the Textbook on series provides an accessible overview of the key areas on the law curriculum. This chapter considers the provisions whereby an individual can be excluded from refugee status because of their conduct. These are as laid down in the Refugee Convention and the EC Qualification Directive. The chapter discusses up-to-date case law on exclusion from refugee status based on crimes against humanity, serious non-political crimes, and acts against the purpose and principles of the United Nations. It deals with the issue of complicity and the relationship with the UK’s anti-terrorism legislation. It also deals with the situations in which refugees can be removed from the host country.

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