Essays about: "Humanitarian action"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 115 essays containing the words Humanitarian action.

  1. 16. Using a social registry to assess household social vulnerability to natural hazards in Malawi

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för geografi

    Author : Petter Sundqvist; [2023]
    Keywords : Household Social Vulnerability Index; Principal Component Analysis; Vulnerability Map; Natural Hazards; Disaster Risk Management; Flood Vulnerability; Social Registry; United Beneficiary Registry; Malawi; Nsanje;

    Abstract : Social factors moderate the impacts of natural hazards, which means that households are affected differently when exposed to the same hazard. This differential impact of hazards can be explained by the concept of social vulnerability, which is commonly assessed to inform disaster preparedness and response action. READ MORE

  3. 17. Reproduction and Resistance : Female Bodies and Agency in the Sahrawi Liberation Struggle

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

    Author : Lucrezia Giordano; [2022]
    Keywords : ation; reproduction; female body; collective processes; reproductive health; agency; decolonial feminism; resistance;

    Abstract : This study sets out to investigate Sahrawi women’s understanding of maternities as bodily and embodied experiences of collective and individual resistance within the Sahrawi liberation struggle against the occupation of Western Sahara. By using the Sahrawi liberation front’s pronatalist politics as a starting point to explore Sahrawi women’s positioning in the liminal space between reproductive health and biological reproduction as a socio-political action, I draw on a decolonial understanding of agency to analyse the relationship between individual health and collective resistance – especially in correlation with the increase of humanitarian projects targeting sexual and reproductive health. READ MORE

  4. 18. Controlling the Uncontrollable? : A qualitative content analysis of the United Nations Sendai Framework and its reflection of disaster risk reduction in a risk society.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Ida Lindberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Disaster risk reduction; the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030; natural hazards; the United Nations; climate change; control; resilience; uncertainty; humanitarian aid;

    Abstract : Occurrences of extreme weather events are increasing due to the ongoing climate change driven by human actions. In parallel, this triggers a growing need for humanitarian action in the future to help those impacted by disasters. READ MORE

  5. 19. Justifying or Excusing Humanitarian Intervention? - An Examination of Whether the Law of State Responsibility Can Accommodate the Domestic Justification-Excuse Distinction

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Isabella Krvavac; [2022]
    Keywords : Folkrätt; public international law; analogi; analogy; rättfärdigande omständigheter; justifications; ursäktande omständigheter; excuses; humanitär intervention; humanitarian intervention; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In defense of humanitarian intervention, it has been claimed to be ‘illegal but justified’ and ‘illegal but excused’. One way of understanding such claims is that humanitarian intervention is illegal since existing primary rules of international law prohibit such intervention. READ MORE

  6. 20. A crisis within a crisis: urban humanitarian response to Syrian refugees in Beirut : Meeting the challenges to respond to urban crises.

    University essay from

    Author : Victoria Sama del Pino; [2022]
    Keywords : urban crises; refugees; Beirut; urban humanitarian response; systems;

    Abstract : The widespread image of refugee camps only represents less than half of the world's refugee population, as the great majority of them are in urban settlements. This is caused by the phenomenon of global urbanisation, which has ultimately affected forced displacement. READ MORE