UN Chronicle E-Alert: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

With urgent humanitarian crises invariably arising in post-conflict situations, as well as natural disasters, around the world, the United Nations has, proved its capacity to provide and to coordinate humanitarian assistance and channel support from donors for immediate relief and long-term, recovery, working with Member States and with civil society. The UN Chronicle has regularly featured such humanitarian work of the, United Nations and the expectations thinking observers have of its role, in this particular area. The following articles, selected from past issues, give an idea of the scope of the, humanitarian efforts of the entire UN system:

Issue 4, 2002
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue4/0402p48.html">Humanitarian Action and Environmental Sustainability"
by Rustem Ertegun for the UN Chronicle.

Issue 3, 2002
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue3/0302p77_gender_based_violence.html">Addressing Gender-based Violence: 'If Not Now, When?"
by Herminia Roque for the UN Chronicle.

Issue 2, 2002
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue2/0202p29_refugees_and_mental_health.html">Refugees and Mental Health"
by Richard Mollica, Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee
Trauma (HPRT) at Massachusetts General Hospital and by
Laura McDonald, research assistant at HPRT.

Issue 4, 2001
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue4/0104p23.html">The Security Council, Human Rights and Humanitarian Issues"
by Bertrand Ramcharan, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights since 1998.
    
Issue 1, 2001
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue1/0101p47.html">Restoring Property Rights in Kosovo: Post-conflict Disaster Management"
by Daniel Lewis, Chief Technical Adviser and Executive Director
of the Housing and Property Directorate in Kosovo.
    
Issue 4, 2000
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2000/issue4/0400p10.htm">When Disaster Strikes"
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2000/issue4/0400p12.htm">In Emergency Call: (41 22) 917-2010"
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2000/issue4/0400p13.htm">The Risk of Competing Risks"

Issue 4, 1999
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/1999/issue4/0499p28.htm">Dealing with Natural Disasters: In the Space of a Second"
by Walter Balzan, Permanent Representative of Malta to the
United Nations.

Issue 2, 1999
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/1999/issue2/0299p36.htm">Post-Conflict Programming: Feelings Fatigue?"
by Ilene Cohn, Visiting Fellow, Human Rights Program,
Harvard Law School.

· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/1999/issue2/0299p24p.htm">Refugee at Home"
by Roberta Cohen, Co-Director of the Brookings Institution
Project on Internal Displacement.

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