Conference on The Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Acute Crisis London, 11-13 February 1998   Edited by Co-Directors: Dr Mukesh Kapila (DFID) and Professor Nigel S Rodley (University of Essex) Rapporteurs: Professor Kevin Boyle (University of Essex) and Ms Aisling Reidy (University of Essex)
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Table of contents

• INTRODUCTION
   
• RECOMMENDATIONS:
  • 1. International preparedness for effective responses to situations of acute crisis
  • 2. Field Operations
  • 3. Funding
  • 4. Strengthening international accountability for the protection of human rights
  • 5. Arms Sales
  • 6. Enterprises and Human Rights Violation
     
• OPENING ADDRESS
  by the Rt Hon Clare Short, MP Secretary of State for International Development
   
• PRESENTED PAPERS:
  • 1. International Responses to Acute Crisis: Supporting Human Rights through Protection and Assistance
    Discussion paper prepared by Kate Mackintosh
     
  • 2. International Human Rights Law and Machinery for Monitoring its Implementation in Situations of Acute Crisis
    Nigel S Rodley
     
  • 3. International Humanitarian Law in Situations of Acute Crisis
    Françoise Hampson
     
  • 4. Work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
    Carlo von Flüe
     
  • 5. An Introduction to the Law Relating to the Protection of Displaced Persons in Situations of Armed Conflict
    Geoff Gilbert
     
  • 6. Humanitarian Aid and Neutrality
    Nicholas Morris
     
  • 7. Dilemmas in Providing Humanitarian Assistance in Crisis Environments
    David Bassiouni
     
  • 8. Sharpening the Weapons of Peace: The Development of a Common Military Doctrine for Peace Support Operations
    Philip Wilkinson, MBE
     
  • 9. From Conventional Peacekeeping to Multidimensional Field Operations
    Emma Shitakha
     
  • 10. A New Frontier: the Early Experience and Future of International Human Rights Field Operations
    Ian Martin
     
  • 11. UNDP’s Role in Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in Crisis and Post-Crisis Countries
    Colleen Duggan
     
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
   
• APPENDICES:
  • Appendix A - List of participants
  • Appendix B - Agenda
  • Appendix C - Biographies of speakers

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