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A "global nervous system": The rise and rise of European humanitarian NGOs
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Going a step beyond the guiding principle
of Amnesty International and the human rights movement that individuals
could change the policies of foreign governments humanitarian NGOs emphasised
the power of ...
Civil war in El Salvador and the origins of rights-based humanitarianism
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-06-03)
This article traces the global humanitarian sector s late twentieth-century embrace of human rights to the brutal civil conflict in El Salvador in the 1980s. Drawing on evidence from NGOs in three Anglophone states (Britain, ...
Aidland in South Asia: humanitarian crisis and the contours of the global aid industry in the long 1970s
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022-06-07)
This article uses the experiences of expatriate aid workers in South Asia to examine the contours of the global aid industry in the long 1970s. It begins by outlining the impact of the crisis on the aid sector, before using ...