L'humanitaire comme producteur de territoire. L'exemple du camp de Nkondo ouvert aux réfugiés angolais en R.D.C. (Humanitarian assistance as a mean of implementing a territory. The example of the angolan refugee camp of Nkondo in D.R.C.)

The chapter is set on April 19, 1991, during Lieutenant General John Shalikashvili’s very first inspection of a mountain refugee camp (Isikveren). The chapter demonstrates the absolute misery of life in the camps and outlines the suffering and looming potential for massive death. It reviews the progress the international humanitarian mission has accomplished so far and the upcoming shift in mission goal from “humanitarian assistance” to “humanitarian intervention,” which means Shalikashvili now faces the herculean task of moving all 500,000+ Kurds out of the mountains. Seeing the misery in the camp, Shalikashvili recalls his own suffering when he’d lost people he loved, particularly his loss, within weeks of each other, of both his premature baby girl and his cancer-stricken wife. It explains how all these blows—these “betrayals” by people he loved—are what helped push him to make the military his closest family, to make caring for and even loving the military community an inherent part of his leadership modus operandi.

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A Comparative Study of the local implementation of Humanitarian Assistance Framework in WASH Projects of Kenya’s Refugee Camp and Settlement

OUGHTOPIA ◽

10.32355/oughtopia.2019.08.34.2.81 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 81-119

Author(s):

Jiyoung Hong ◽

HyukSang Sohn

Keyword(s):

Comparative Study ◽

Refugee Camp ◽

Humanitarian Assistance ◽

Local Implementation

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The Politics of Accusation amidst Conditions of Precarity in the Nakivale Resettlement Camp

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology ◽

10.3167/cja.2019.370204 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 39-56

Author(s):

Sophie Nakueira

Keyword(s):

Refugee Camp ◽

Humanitarian Assistance ◽

African Countries ◽

Scarce Resources ◽

The Everyday ◽

Political Unrest ◽

The Status ◽

Preferential Access

Nakivale, the oldest refugee camp in Uganda, hosts refugees fleeing various forms of political unrest from several African countries. Uganda’s humanitarian framework makes it an attractive place for refugees. Little is known about the role that humanitarian policies play in shaping interactions between different actors or the politics of accusation that emerges within this settlement. In a context in which the status of a refugee can confer preferential access to scarce resources, different refugee communities struggle to define themselves, their neighbours and kin in terms of the camp’s humanitarian language. Describing the everyday anxieties that define life in the camp, this article shows how accusations become powerful resources that refugees draw upon to meet the criteria for resettlement to a third country, but also how these forms of humanitarian assistance rely on processes of exclusion that create endemic accusations of corruption, criminality and even witchcraft.

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Forum Panelist 3: MyCARE: The Humanitarian Responses as an NGO towards Pandemic COVID-19 in Malaysia

International Journal of Human and Health Sciences (IJHHS) ◽

10.31344/ijhhs.v5i0.299 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 8

Author(s):

Teo Ann Siang

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Vietnam War ◽

Refugee Camp ◽

The Philippines ◽

Humanitarian Assistance ◽

South East Asia ◽

Non Profit ◽

Social Council ◽

Major Disaster ◽

Southern Thailand

COVID-19 pandemic becomes the major disaster happening through out every part of the world and change every single sector, including the humanitarian perspective. As the COVID-19 has spread, government worldwide restrict the movement of people, interruption on activists to deliver assistances, logistics challenge and hampering humanitarian responses. This article makes HUMANITARIAN CARE MALAYSIA BERHAD (MyCARE) as an example of a local Malaysian NGO in providing humanitarian assistance during the periods in the pandemic. MyCARE is a Non-Profit Organization (NPO) registered with the Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM) [Reg. No: 729288-P], the member of South East Asia Humanitarian Communities (SEAHUM) and existing special consultative member of United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).MyCARE’s humanitarian relief network covers South East Asia Archipelago including the Philippines, Cambodia, Southern Thailand and Vietnam; war-torn countries in the Middle East such as Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq; the stateless and displaced Rohingya people, as well as disaster-stricken areas regardless of racial and religious boundaries. MyCARE is also active in Malaysia in providing temporary shelters, rebuilding homes and provision of fresh water in the flood-stricken areas.This article wishes to share the humanitarian works by MyCARE, in which major assistance has been provided to a major natural hazard be affected during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia, and urgent needs for countries such as Gaza and well as the Rohingya Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh as the largest refugee camp in the world.International Journal of Human and Health Sciences Supplementary Issue: 2021 Page: S8

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Silence as Self-care: Pregnant Adolescents and Adolescent Mothers Concealing Paternity in Mahama Refugee Camp, Rwanda

Sexuality & Culture ◽

10.1007/s12119-021-09928-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Yvette Ruzibiza

Keyword(s):

Single Mothers ◽

Adolescent Mothers ◽

Self Care ◽

Refugee Camp ◽

Humanitarian Assistance ◽

Ethnographic Research ◽

Criminal Offence ◽

Pregnant Adolescents ◽

Legal Structures ◽

Adolescent Pregnancies

AbstractIn Rwanda, sexual activity with and among adolescents under the age of 18 is a criminal offence. This is justified to reduce abuse and adolescent pregnancies. Despite this, the Burundian Mahama refugee camp in Rwanda is registering an escalating pregnancy rate among girls 13 to 15 years old. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted from December 2017 to April 2018, this paper shows how pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers navigate punitive legal structures to protect their baby’s father by concealing his identity. In a challenging socioeconomic context with limited opportunities, silence provides pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers with a strategy to protect their boyfriends from jail and to access humanitarian assistance available to single mothers. I suggest that silence can be a self-care strategy to negotiate and navigate temporalities as they seek to manage the circumstances in which they find themselves, whilst hoping for a better future for themselves and their children.

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Military Involvement in Disaster Preparedness, Organisation, and Disaster Relief — Civilian Military Co-Operation (CIMIC)

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x00009511 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 17 (S2) ◽

pp. S25

Author(s):

Rannveig Bremer Fjær ◽

Knut Ole Sundnes

Keyword(s):

Disaster Management ◽

Disaster Preparedness ◽

Disaster Relief ◽

Humanitarian Assistance ◽

Humanitarian Emergencies ◽

Military Involvement ◽

Military Forces

In frequent humanitarian emergencies during the last decades, military forces increasingly have been engaged through provision of equipment and humanitarian assistance, and through peace-support operations. The objective of this study was to evaluate how military resources could be used in disaster preparedness as well as in disaster management and relief.

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