A humanitarian crisis: reframing the legal framework on humanitarian assistance

Climate Justice and Solidarity Rights: Peace, Development, Humanitarian Assistance, and a Healthy Environment

“…And while it does not yet exist on its own, and is not spelled out in a separate declaration, the right to humanitarian assistance can be derived from existing social and economic rights. These rights include, as a starting point, the rights to life, food, water, shelter and housing, and overall health that includes access to medicine (Kuijt, 2014;Pietropaolo, 2016). These rights exist in international law, for example in the respective conventions for refugees, internally displaced persons, and children.…”

Non-state actors and education as a humanitarian response: role of faith-based organizations in education for Syrian refugees in Turkey

“…Whereas humanitarian action became the subject matter of several studies with considerable "interdisciplinary fragmentation" (Zwitter et al 2014;3, Roberts 1996, Kuijt 2014, Bragg 2015, Betts 2011, Agblorti 2011, Forte 2014, Ryfman 2007, until recently, education provision as humanitarian assistance remained understudied to a great extent (Sinclair 2002;21, Davies and Talbot 2008, Aguilar and Retemal 2009, Bragg, 2015. One possible reason for this is that education was not viewed as a central pillar of the humanitarian response alongside nourishment, shelter, and health services until relatively recently (O'Rourke 2015, Burde 2014, Nicolai 2003.…”