World Humanitarian Summit 2016: PHAP events on humanitarian assistance and protection themes

About the author(s):

Katharine Fortin

Katharine Fortin is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University where she teaches IHL and IHRL. Before joining Utrecht University, she worked at the ICTY, ICC and Norton Rose Fulbright. She is the author of The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2017) which won the 2018 Lieber Prize. She has written widely about the framework of law that applies to armed groups in non-international armed conflicts and is one of the editors of the Armed Groups and International Law blog.

The World Humanitarian Summit, to take place in Istanbul in May 2016, is the first-ever humanitarian summit of this scale and scope. Its objective is to set a future agenda for humanitarian action to ensure improved responsiveness to the changing humanitarian landscape in terms of greater needs, more diverse actors, new technologies, and political and economic shifts. It will focus on humanitarian effectiveness, reducing vulnerability and managing risk, transformation through innovation, and serving the needs of people in conflict.

In the lead up to the summit, a series of Regional Consultations has been scheduled to bring together individuals and groups working on humanitarian assistance and protection and give them a chance to identify humanitarian challenges and promote solutions.

The Eastern and Southern regional consultation is due to take place in Pretoria, South Africa on 27 October 2014. In the lead up to this regional consultation, Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP) are hosting a number of online events arranged around a number of  themes related to humanitarian assistance. Details of the upcoming events are found below:-