[Radix] A Human Rights Perspective for Natural Disasters

[Patrick Meier]

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Personal Message: Interesting article for AfP members, from Lisa Aronson
A Human Rights Perspective for Natural DisastersWalter Kälin
January 14, 2008
While it is correct that those displaced by floods, earth-quakes, tsunamis
and the like are primarily in need of humanitarian assistance, experience
from natural disasters all over the world teaches us that there is a serious
risk of human rights violations when the displaced cannot return to their
homes or find new ones after some weeks or months.

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http://www.brookings.edu/speeches/2008/0114_disasters_kalin.aspx?emc=lm&m=212062&l=49&v=150441

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