International humanitarian law

Mercy Corps is a humanitarian aid agency whose main goal is help those struck by disaster. Mercy Corps is all over the world. They are stationed in places like South Sudan, Libya, Lebanon, Haiti, Myanmar, India, Uganda, United States, and Syria, just to name a few. (Mercy Corps website CITE) The reasons for needing aid in these countries include natural disasters and man-made disasters. Natural disasters include earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, avalanches, droughts, storms…

Hurricane Matthew has been the most destructive hurricane, therefore being classified as a very deadly category 5 cyclone. Due to Matthew being the most destructive it caused the death toll to rise very high up to the hundreds and thousands in Jérémie and surrounding, while in other remote areas there is not an accurate death toll yet. Hurricane Matthew had been just as bad as the destruction it left behind. The Haitian government is to blame for Haiti being unprepared for the destruction of…

public figures for humanitarian causes. It is debatable that celebrities’ vast influence on the public can negatively impact the cause. Realistically, the celebrities influence on the public is the reason that celebrity humanitarians are successful advocates. Celebrities hold the power to generate awareness quickly and talk with bureaucrats to initiate change, while also benefiting from the publicity. These qualities make them strong candidates for becoming the voice of humanitarian causes.…

Life in the refugee camps It’s all about survival they just sit or lay and wait and wait for food and water and medical to show up they are about to die without food and water and medical they need your help all you have to do is donate what you want them to have they don’t care what it is they just want food and water, if they have water it's dirty water but right now they don’t care they are just so thirsty and hungry it’s unreal we need to help them before they die just image all the kids…

Writing in November 1971, Peter Singer condemns developed nations for not making the necessary decisions to save East Bengalis from evitable starvation, violence, and disease. Even the most prominent aid contributors such as Britain and Australia spend much more on domestic luxury projects than on reducing fellow human suffering. Using Bengal as an example, Singer asserts that people have a moral obligation to give significant amounts of money to aid organizations. In disagreement, I will argue…

Some say They United States is the best country in the world, unchallenged by other countries the USA is an innovated country full of diverse cultures and lifestyles. Not only that there are many large corporations founded in the United States with some of the riches CEO’s in the world. In a typical town. millions of $600 phones can be seen carried by numerous people. Most which have nice cars, houses and a safe job. As America grows so does the people living under the poverty level. Poverty and…

The Home Depot mission has the vision, and ethical framework, to be a major contributor to all of many causes above. Two of their values are giving back to our community and doing the right things. On the website doing the right things is quoted a, "doing the right thing" instead of just "doing things right".(Home 2016) They continually do above and beyond works in the community by helping with building project that donating equipment to help build and repairs homes and shelters in many low…

Throughout the community I reside in, there is a continuous problem of what goes on in the streets. It is not uncommon to see people walking the streets late at night, or begging for money during the day. The reality is these people are struggling, and they need help of some sort. They can’t provide for themselves and we as a community are unable to provide for the amount of people who are struggling. What is the best way to help solve the problem in our community? Many people are going without…

of the war medicine that was practiced there. Fink takes both a macro and micro approach to explaining what happened at Srebrenica in the early 1990s. She chronicles the actions, thoughts, and experiences of individual doctors, both Bosnian and international, who risked their lives to treat injured civilians in the most challenging of conditions. Alongside these individual perspectives, she outlines the institutional perspectives, attitudes, and actions that prevented the war from ending and…

Help or Hurt? Humanitarian Aid For over a century, the humanitarianism has represented compassion, courage, goodness, and heroism. It remains so in many ways today. Most of us feel compelled to donate or volunteer when we see images of a starving child, a displaced refugee, or when we hear news about a war-torn or natural disaster affected regions. It is heartwarming to know that there are so many organizations and individuals who so selflessly and courageously rush to help those in need. One of…