COMPLEMENTARITY OF CORE HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLES AND FEMINIST APPROACH TO
HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLES.
PRINCIPLE
Core humanitarian principles endorsed by the UN General
Assembly
Feminist approach to core humanitarian principles
HUMANITY Human suffering must be addressed wherever it is found. The purpose of humanitarian action is to protect life and health and ensure respect for
Human beings. The purpose of humanitarian action is to address the suffering of women, girls, men and boys, to protect their lives, health, and to ensure respect for them as human beings. Humanitarian actors must be aware that women’s and girls’ marginalization within most societies leads to their reduced access to resources, livelihood inputs and basic services; increased family and social …show more content…
Neutrality Humanitarian actors must not take sides in hostilities or engage in controversies of a political, racial, religious or ideological nature Humanitarian actors must ensure that assistance is not influenced by political, racial, religious or ideological policies, beliefs or actions that discriminate against women and girls and or undermine their rights to protection and humanitarian assistance. Because of pervasive systematic and structural discrimination against women and girls in many societies, which is often exacerbated during crisis, this principle may be especially difficult to uphold, particularly in contexts in which state and non-state actors actively oppose women’s and girls’ equality and rights to protection and humanitarian assistance
Impartiality Humanitarian action must be carried out on the basis of need alone, giving priority to the most urgent cases
HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLES.
PRINCIPLE
Core humanitarian principles endorsed by the UN General
Assembly
Feminist approach to core humanitarian principles
HUMANITY Human suffering must be addressed wherever it is found. The purpose of humanitarian action is to protect life and health and ensure respect for
Human beings. The purpose of humanitarian action is to address the suffering of women, girls, men and boys, to protect their lives, health, and to ensure respect for them as human beings. Humanitarian actors must be aware that women’s and girls’ marginalization within most societies leads to their reduced access to resources, livelihood inputs and basic services; increased family and social …show more content…
Neutrality Humanitarian actors must not take sides in hostilities or engage in controversies of a political, racial, religious or ideological nature Humanitarian actors must ensure that assistance is not influenced by political, racial, religious or ideological policies, beliefs or actions that discriminate against women and girls and or undermine their rights to protection and humanitarian assistance. Because of pervasive systematic and structural discrimination against women and girls in many societies, which is often exacerbated during crisis, this principle may be especially difficult to uphold, particularly in contexts in which state and non-state actors actively oppose women’s and girls’ equality and rights to protection and humanitarian assistance
Impartiality Humanitarian action must be carried out on the basis of need alone, giving priority to the most urgent cases