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Human Rights and Natural Disasters

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Bibliographic information:

 

Inter-Agency Standing Committee. 2008. Human Rights and Natural Disasters: Operational Guidelines and Field Manual on Human Rights Protection in Situations of Natural Disaster. Washington, DC: The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement.

 


Abstract:

 

This manual was drafted to accompany the IASC Operational Guidelines on Human Rights and Natural Disasters adopted in 2006. It is designed "to help people in the field to understand the human rights dimensions of their work in disaster response while giving them practical examples and operational steps about how some of these seemingly abstract concepts may be implemented" (p. iv). As a pilot version, the manual will be updated once it has been tested more thoroughly in the field. Part I provides an introduction to human rights protection in the context of natural disasters; Part II describes how to implement human rights principles in the field; the chapter is sub-divided into four categories of human rights; Part III focuses on the human rights of specific vulnerable groups, such as "internally displaced persons, women, children, the elderly, single-headed households, persons with disabilities or HIV/AIDS, ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples" (p. 4). The first annex lists references to relevant resources while the second annex provides cross-references between the Operational Guidelines and the Sphere Project's Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response (see separate entry). 

 


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Legal protection 

Natural disasters

 


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Report

 


 

 

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