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Introductory Remarks by Tracey Begley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2019

Tracey Begley
Tracey Begley*
Affiliation:
Legal Advisor at the International Committee of the Red Cross. These views do not necessarily represent the views of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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Extract

The discussion on humanitarian access is, unfortunately, an essential one to have right now. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that about 141 million people across thirty-seven countries are in need of humanitarian assistance. Of that, about 13.1 million people in Syria—that is twice the size of the population of the DC metro area—and 22.2 million in Yemen, just to name two countries in conflict. The operational and legal challenges to try to get even a small amount of assistance to people in need are tremendous.

Type
Humanitarian Access in Armed Conflict
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 112 , 2018 , pp. 265 - 266
Copyright
Copyright © by The American Society of International Law 2019 

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Footnotes

This panel was convened at 1:00 p.m., on Friday, April 6, 2018, by its moderator, Tracey Begley, Legal Advisor at the International Committee of the Red Cross, who introduced the panelists: Michael Bothe of Goethe-Universität Frankfurt; Dustin Lewis of the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict; Nathalie Weizmann of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; and Jeremy Konyndyk of the Centre for Global Development.