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| Advocacy
and meetings: other events |
| Media launch of IDRL desk study |
5 November 2007 - Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
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| Mr. Ibrahim Osman, Deputy Secretary General of the International Federation and Mr. David Fisher, Senior Legal Research Officer, IDRL, highlighted the study’s findings that well-functioning legal and policy frameworks are key to ensuring that disaster-affected persons receive the right aid, at the right time and in the right manner. Lack of legal preparedness exacerbates barriers and delays for international assistance, while at the same time rendering receiving authorities’ tasks in coordination and regulation more difficult. |
Law and legal issues in international disaster response: a desk study, the IDRL Programme’s new study, was launched at a media event on 5th November at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
For the full text of the desk study and its translated summaries: http://www.ifrc.org/what/disasters/idrl/research/publications.asp#deskstudy
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| Open meeting on IDRL for permanent missions and National Societies |
2 October 2007 - Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Fifty Permanent Missions and 15 National Societies world-wide came together to share ideas and perspectives on the Draft IDRL Guidelines. Statements of support were made by several Governments and National Societies. Additionally, there was discussion on how best to take IDRL and the Guidelines forward after the International Conference.
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| ECOSOC
IDRL side event |
17 July 2006 - UN Economic and Social
Council (ECOSOC) Geneva, Switzerland
"Improving
legal frameworks for the facilitation, coordination and
regulation of international disaster response"
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His Excellency, Mr. Tunç
Ügdül, Minister Plenipotentiary and Deputy
Director General for Multilateral Political Affairs
of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reading
a statement at the IDRL side event at the ECOSOC
session in the 17 July 2007. (p15302) |
Related documents:
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| IDRL
Webinar |
Governing the Maelstrom:
The Law of International Disaster Response -
26 April 2006
Co-sponsored by: the International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies,
the American
Society of International Law (ASIL) and the American
Bar Association NGO and Not for Profit Committee of the
Section on International Law.
The incidence of major disasters, particularly natural
disasters, is on the rise, as are the scope and frequency
of international assistance. The international response
to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami alone is estimated to
have surpassed $14 billion and to have involved hundreds
of relief organizations, numerous governments and uncounted
private companies and individual donors. In 2005, even
the world’s largest donor, the United States of
America, found itself on the receiving end of both in-kind
and financial assistance from over fifty countries and
a number of non-governmental and international organizations
in response to Hurricane Katrina. Yet, few international
lawyers are familiar with the existing framework of international
law governing non-conflict disaster relief, and the consistent
legal problems that arise in such operations remain underreported.
This webinar shed some light on these questions, looking
first at the overall international regulatory framework
and its gaps, then at the significant problem of how to
ensure the accountability of disaster relief providers,
and finally at the specific experience of ASEAN in developing
a regional treaty to manage international disaster relief.
More information:
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| FEMA
Legal Roundtable |
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| Balkan
National Societies meeting on IDRL |
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Disaster management
(55 Kb, 6 pages)
