Humanitarian assistance an interference is called into an emergency situation of humans other culture area, which has the protection of humans in a humanitarian state of distress as a goal. Humanitarian assistance in the third world mostly takes place and by national and non-governmental organizations is accomplished and financed.

It can concern around substantial violations of human rights up to the Genozid, in addition, natural catastrophes. In the closer sense humanitarian assistance refers to the local population, not to the protection of own citizens. That the state concerned is not able or not will, the endangered one even protection is presupposed too offers

Demarcation to humanitarian intervention

The humanitarian assistance is often mixed with the humanitarian intervention, which leads to difficulties with the concerning, since the humanitarian assistance in contrast zuf intervention passively and without use of force takes place.

Criticism

The motives for humanitarian assistance, service at the next one, always specified, independently of the ethnical, cultural or religious origin, often smear, since the employment is often politically motivated by assistance. Which also too often leads to large differences between different organizations.

Role United Nations

The United Nations tries with certain subsidiary organizations as to be coordinated the UNHCR or the UNCDF the efforts of the relief organizations and also partly financed.

Organizations

Organizations, which render humanitarian help:

• International red cross and red half moon movement
• Physicians without borders
• Oxfam
• Alliance development helps

Related links

• europa.eu.int
• reliefweb.int Koordiationsseite of the United Nations
• ochaonline.un.org Website of the co-ordination office for humanitarian affairs of the United Nations (Office for the Coordination OF Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA)
• icrc.org international committee of the red cross/internationally Committee OF the talk CROSS, Geneva
• Network humanitarian assistance
• Regional youth club from Luxembourg, which supported in the year 2002 & 2003 humanitarian aid projects in Romania
• ihlresearch.org program over "Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research" (HPCR). Program of the international institute for international law/internationally institutes OF Humanitarian Law of the Harvard University

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