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PHAP hosts IOM online discussion on humanitarian accountability
1 February 2015
PHAP organizes and hosts different kinds of online events, meetings, and discussions – such as briefings and discussions for members of the association, public consultations and briefings, and custom events for specific humanitarian organizations. An example of the latter took place on 11 December 2014, when PHAP hosted an internal event for the International Organization for Migration (IOM...
1 February 2015
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At the end of March this year, PHAP will return to Dubai to organize two training opportunities for professionals who want to gain a deeper understanding of humanitarian law and policy and the implications for their work. From 28-30 March 2015, we are offering the Core Professional Training on Humanitarian Law and Policy, directly followed by a Thematic Workshop on Humanitarian Access for...
1 February 2015
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The PHAP 2014 Annual General Assembly was held on Monday, 29 December, chaired by PHAP President Karen Koning AbuZayd. With a separate Extraordinary General Assembly to be held in April 2015, which will deal with issues of strategic importance to the association, the purpose of this meeting at the close of the 2014 year was primarily to complete regular annual administrative business, as well as...
31 January 2015
On 8 January 2015, more than 250 practitioners, researchers, experts, and others involved in humanitarian work joined an event hosted by PHAP on the principle of neutrality. Part of PHAP’s contribution to the World Humanitarian Summit consultation process, the event was an opportunity for participants to give the views on how the principle of neutrality should be implemented in humanitarian...
27 January 2015
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This February, PHAP will be offering a special training course in Arabic on Humanitarian Law and Engaging Armed Groups in the Protection of Civilians. Having previously been held in English in Amman, Nairobi, and Bangkok, the course will now return to Amman on 14-16 February, with the entirety of the course being conducted in Arabic.
PHAP’s Special Course on Humanitarian Law and Engaging...
23 January 2015
PHAP has offered workshops for humanitarian practitioners for several years on the topic of Islamic Law and the Protection of Civilians. In March this year, this workshop will be offered in Geneva with an updated agenda taking into account developments in how Islamist armed movements are referring to Islamic Law and how governments in turn are dealing with these armed actors. To introduce this...
21 January 2015
The PHAP Secretariat would like to extend a very warm welcome to four new interns who joined the team in January 2015: Alessandra Carminati, Kevin Klaas, Pedro Silva Rocha Lima, and Phil Paterson. As interns in PHAP’s office in Geneva, they will be taking on an extensive variety of tasks, while learning about the association’s work, as well as the humanitarian sector in general.
With...
19 January 2015
Since its creation, PHAP has helped foster learning and exchange between members of the association across the humanitarian sector. Bringing together several of the ways that the association has helped highlight the perspectives of members and provide members with opportunities for learning from each other, we are happy to announce the biweekly Online Exchange Hubs. Gathering the inputs of expert...
12 January 2015
If your work is related to humanitarian action in situations of armed conflict – whether you are working with a government, an NGO, a UN agency, or an academic or policy center – please take a moment to complete a brief but important survey regarding the most needed topics, languages, and locations for professional-level courses and workshops on humanitarian law and policy...
9 December 2014
In light of developments in Syria, Iraq, Mali, and elsewhere, with hostilities between Islamist armed groups and states and other entities becoming more heated, the relevant questions for the humanitarian community regarding Islamic Law and applicable international legal frameworks have moved well beyond humanitarian access negotiations. The use of armed force both by and against Islamist groups...