Background Health Logistics Association (HLA) is an association of logistics professionals committed to humanitarian logistics effectiveness by creating opportunities for dialogue and cooperative relationships with its members and partners to build a community of practice for advancing the humanitarian logistics profession through the promotion of cross organisational learning and collaboration...

The USNS Mercy, one of the two hospital ships in the United States Navy, has provided disaster relief and humanitarian assistance for multiple natural disasters around the world. As a self-sustaining 1000-bed hospital, the USNS Mercy provides a full complement of surgical and medical capabilities to care for the sick and injured in a mobile platform environment. This article describes the recen...

the writer in this article is going to illustrate that human rights and humanitarian law are applicable on detainees of guantanamo bay. of course ,we should know that although scope of our guantanamo bay discussions is about guantanamo bay detainee but our reasons are applicable on similar occasions .the writer does his best to refer to general comments of human rights committee this can increa...

919 emergency, strengthening of the various offices pertaining to their resources, and development of a global health emergency workforce/contingency fund so that desired resources can be immediately deployed without wasting time. 3. Cooperation between health and humanitarian systems: In the current outbreak of Ebola, a wide gap was highlighted between systems for responding to health emergenc...

Objective: within the framework of the monthly meetings of the Regional Food Security and Nutrition Working Group for West Africa, it has been agreed that, in a humanitarian perspective, WFP and FAO provide the group with highlights on the food security situation of the previous month. This document describes key elements developed during this meeting. FOOD SECURITY AND HUMANITARIAN IMPLICATION...

has come in a context in which the US backed coalition has consistently sought to use humanitarian aid to build support for its military and political ambitions. MSF denounces the coalition’s attempts to co-opt humanitarian aid and use it to ‘win hearts and minds’. By doing so, providing aid is no longer seen as an impartial and neutral act, endangering the lives of humanitarian volunteers and ...

The decision-making process on humanitarian logistics deals with variables related to the flow and quality of supplies, since the receipt of emergency relief items, its classification, stock, separation and delivery. Consequently, this decision-making process is crucial for seeking the best results in the allocation of scarce resources for storage and transportation in humanitarian operations, ...

Humanitarian actors have sought increasingly not only to assist people affected by natural disasters but also to protect them. This paper examines the efforts of international humanitarian actors to protect Haitians affected by the devastating earthquake of 12 January 2010. It begins with an analysis of the particular difficulties of conceptualising and operationalising protection in an urban e...

Although the war in Liberia in July 2003 claimed hundreds of lives, the international community was reluctant to intervene. In this article, the author debates the question: does international military intervention equal protection of populations? The role of humanitarian organisations in military intervention is considered. Aid organisations cannot call for deployment of a protection force wit...

This position paper discusses the ongoing debate on the topic of humanitarian effectiveness and highlights the need to look at the structuring of the humanitarian system from an ethical point of view. The paper makes the argument that any community engagement with the affected population is a matter of ethics and dignity of those needs to be considered as a central focus to the discussion. The ...