Humanitarian organizations One can define humanity as a quality of being human. Therefore, there is a certain number of organizations we tend to call humanitarian, since they are concerned with improving the lives of people and reducing the suffering. All of them are based on a set of inalienable human rights regardless of race, country, origin, sex or religion, in which people believe. Moreover, development of humanitarian organizations is inseparably connected with a few documents specyfying those rights. Among them are : · Refugee Convention - 1951 · Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 1948 · the earliest : Geneva Conventions - 1864 – 1949 These last are at the origin of the first modern h.o. – the International Movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. ¨ Arouse out of the work of Jean-Henry Dunant – a Swiss humanitarian, who proposed the formation of voluntary relief societes in all countries throughout the world. ¨ 1864 – a first such a society came into being ¨ an impartial, neutral, and independent organisation, whose humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal conflicts and to provide them with assistance ¨ responds to public health problems, natural disasters and man-made catastrophes ¨ takes action whenever the rules protecting civilans are violated ¨ |
