Humanitarianism under attack.

Munslow, Barry (2019) 'Humanitarianism under attack.'. International Health, Vol 11, Issue 5, pp. 358-360.

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Abstract

Attacks on humanitarianism are threefold. First, in conflict zones, over the past decade attacks on humanitarian health facilities and personnel are increasingly documented, along with a decline in respect for core humanitarian principles by state and non-state actors, and this will continue. Second, growing instrumentalisation, a failure to adequately fund the sector, antimigrant/refugee populism on the rise and the protracted nature of many crises are provoking a shift away from humanitarian to development healthcare aid over the next decade, intended to keep refugees far away from developed countries by encouraging their integration into immediate neighbouring states. This undermines humanitarian healthcare emergency response capacity. Third, the climate crisis will massively increase humanitarian healthcare needs among the most vulnerable over the next decade and challenge the sector to respond across all its programmes, not least as it absorbs a renewed youthful agency elsewhere in climate protest.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	WA Public Health > Accident and Injury Prevention. Disasters > WA 250 General works WA Public Health > Accident and Injury Prevention. Disasters > WA 295 Disasters. Disaster medicine. Rescue work. Terrorism WA Public Health > Health Problems of Special Population Groups > WA 395 Health in developing countries WA Public Health > Health Administration and Organization > WA 525 General works
Faculty: Department:	Education
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihz065
Depositing User:	Stacy Murtagh
Date Deposited:	19 Sep 2019 08:53
Last Modified:	04 Oct 2019 14:41
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/12482

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