Book contents
- Humanitarian Action
- Humanitarian Action: Global, Regional and Domestic Legal Responses
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword by Professor Dr Dr h.c. mult. Knut Ipsen
- List of cases
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- International Conventions, Declarations, Statues, and Treaties
- UN General Assembly Resolutions and Documents
- UN Security Council resolutions and Documents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Law and politics of humanitarian action
- 1 International law andhumanitarian space in the twenty-first century: challenged relationships
- 2 The perils of Dunantism: the need for a rights-based approach to humanitarianism
- 3 A humanitarian crisis: reframing the legal framework on humanitarian assistance
- 4 The utility and limits of legal mandate: humanitarian assistance, the International Committee of the Red Cross and mandate ambiguity
- 5 Issues of state consent and international humanitarian assistance in disasters: the work of the International Law Commission
- 6 United Nations involvement in humanitarian assistance: competences of the Security Council to face today’s obstructions
- 7 International norms informing domestic disaster response schemes
- 8 A duty to accept humanitarian assistance under the ICESCR?
- 9 Regional human rights regimes and humanitarian obligations of states in the event of disaster
- 10 Assessingthe complex normative pluralism in humanitarian crises: do local norms matter?
- Part II International, regional and domestic responses to contemporary challenges
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - United Nations involvement in humanitarian assistance: competences of the Security Council to face today’s obstructions
from Part I - Law and politics of humanitarian action
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2014
Book contents
- Humanitarian Action
- Humanitarian Action: Global, Regional and Domestic Legal Responses
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword by Professor Dr Dr h.c. mult. Knut Ipsen
- List of cases
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- International Conventions, Declarations, Statues, and Treaties
- UN General Assembly Resolutions and Documents
- UN Security Council resolutions and Documents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Law and politics of humanitarian action
- 1 International law andhumanitarian space in the twenty-first century: challenged relationships
- 2 The perils of Dunantism: the need for a rights-based approach to humanitarianism
- 3 A humanitarian crisis: reframing the legal framework on humanitarian assistance
- 4 The utility and limits of legal mandate: humanitarian assistance, the International Committee of the Red Cross and mandate ambiguity
- 5 Issues of state consent and international humanitarian assistance in disasters: the work of the International Law Commission
- 6 United Nations involvement in humanitarian assistance: competences of the Security Council to face today’s obstructions
- 7 International norms informing domestic disaster response schemes
- 8 A duty to accept humanitarian assistance under the ICESCR?
- 9 Regional human rights regimes and humanitarian obligations of states in the event of disaster
- 10 Assessingthe complex normative pluralism in humanitarian crises: do local norms matter?
- Part II International, regional and domestic responses to contemporary challenges
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Humanitarian ActionGlobal, Regional and Domestic Legal Responses, pp. 123 - 148Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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