Humanitarian aid facts for kids
Humanitarian aid is aid given with respect of human dignity with a spirit of human nature to people in war, disaster including natural disaster and to refugees according to laws of war and international human rights law. To this end International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs exist.
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Images for kids
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A UNICEF worker is distributing high-calorie food during an emergency situation in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2008.
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Henry Dunant at Solferino
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Original Geneva Conventions
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A contemporary print showing the distribution of relief in Bellary, Madras Presidency. From the Illustrated London News (1877).
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World Food Programme distributing food in Liberia
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An American soldier gives a young Pakistani girl a drink of water as they are airlifted from Muzaffarabad to Islamabad following the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.
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UNICEF humanitarian aid, ready for deploying. This can be food like Plumpy'nut or water purification tablets.
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Wanda Błeńska, Polish leprosy expert and missionary who successfully developed the Buluba Hospital in Uganda
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Bangladeshi citizens offload food rations from a US Marine CH-46E helicopter of 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit after Tropical Cyclone Sidr in 2007
See also
In Spanish: Ayuda humanitaria para niños