A range of humanitarian aid interventions were scaled up in response to these complex crises.
"At Oxfam, we realise that humanitarian aid interventions need to be coupled with longer-term economic recovery approaches," he adds.
Secondly, this process is often aggravated by the fact that humanitarian aid and intervention agencies use categorical approaches, in which certain target groups in particular former child soldiers are supported, and many others are not, in an effort to effectively distribute scarce resources [ 78, 79, 83].
The conjunction between human rights, humanitarian aid and military interventions has created a particularly dangerous dynamic, but the rights discourse itself raises a whole set of issues that need to be considered more carefully.
As most mass disasters strike low-income countries, and because emergency situations call for a variety of humanitarian aid beyond psychological interventions, resources for the provision of mental health assistance are usually very low despite the high need.
8 18–23 While the immediate goal of saving lives is a fundamental objective of medical humanitarian interventions, humanitarian aid often fails to address overwhelming needs, and is ineffective in the long term if mechanisms to address underlying sociopolitical causes of human suffering are not available.
Working with colleagues, the 42-year-old Vitoriano is designing computer tools to support humanitarian aid organizations in their disaster interventions.
"There will be more refugees resettled, more humanitarian aid, we will continue the military intervention against ISIS".
This means that the European Commission should consider whether the international intervention power which Mr Solana is busy setting up should not be supplemented with a kind of European intervention power for humanitarian aid, which acts quickly and which can also inform the media quickly on the work that is being done.
We explore how to anticipate, discuss and monitor potential negative effects of current state-building approaches on health interventions, including on humanitarian aid.
Western leaders had previously warned Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, against using a humanitarian aid mission as a pretext for a military intervention in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
