Library Guides: United Nations: Humanitarian

United Nations Humanitarian Relief Information

United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Chief UN office for coordination of humanitarian affairs, within the UN and other international agencies, especially for emergencies and natural disasters.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The United Nations Refugee Agency. Includes many online books, papers and statistics.

World Food Programme (WFP). The United Nations Food Agency. World's largest international food aid organization, dedicated to combating hunger during severe food shortages.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Focal point in the UN system for the coordination of disaster risk reduction.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Includes a section on emergency relief operations. See also the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System.

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. Includes section on mitigation of marine related disasters.

International Fund for Agricultural Development. Specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to eradicating rural poverty in developing countries.

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The UN AIDS agency. See the section on HIV/AIDS in Emergency Settings.

United Nations Capital Development Fund. Investment fund for Least Developed Countries to help reduce poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). United Nations children's agency. See the section for publications on children and emergencies.

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. UN agency charged with reducing human, social, economic and environmental losses due to natural hazards.

United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries. UN Office for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States.

United Nations Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee. UN (third) committee mandated to address human rights, social development, refugees, advancement of women, indigenous peoples, and more.

World Health Organization. Portal for emergencies. Activities, reports, news and events in WHO programmes and offices working on the health-related aspects of disasters.

United Nations Books on Humanitarian Relief

The Right to Adequate Food in Emergencies
When natural disasters hit and violent conflicts arise, the right to food of innocent people is often endangered. This study examines the international legal framework of relevance to the right to adequate food in emergencies, exploring applicable international human rights and humanitarian law as well as economic and environmental law.
Building Resilience to Natural Disasters and Major Economic Crises.
This book highlights the increasing trend of natural disasters affecting the Asia-Pacific region through disruptions to production and supply chains of goods and services as economies of the region become more integrated, and examines the links between natural disasters and economic shocks.
Viewing Nuclear Weapons Through a Humanitarian Lens.
There is renewed international concern about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences that would result from the detonation of nuclear weapons in populated areas. Drawing on a range of perspectives, this volume explores what viewing nuclear weapons through a humanitarian lens entails, and why it is of value.
Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations.
Explores the UN's track record of military action, from cold war 'brushfire' peacekeeping to the fractured globalisation of the contemporary world. Using empirical evidence, the authors compiles a 'balance sheet' of the UN's successes and failures and asks hard questions about humanitarian intervention's short and long-term value.
All Necessary Measures: the United Nations and Humanitarian Intervention
Identifies systematic patterns in the stories that council members tell about conflicts and the UN policy solutions that result from them. Drawing on comparative case studies spanning two decades, including situations where the council has intervened to stop mass killing as well as situations where it has not, the author posits that the arguments council members make about the cause and character of conflict as well as the source of sovereign authority in target states have the potential to enable or constrain the use of military force.

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United Nations Books on Humanitarian Relief