In this episode of History Slam, Postdoctoral Fellow Sean Graham speaks to Dr. Alicia Ely Yamin about her new book Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity: Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter.
Month: March 2016
The 4th bi-annual conference of the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) was held this past 5-8 March 2016. The topic of this year’s conference was Changing Crises and the Quest for Adequate Solutions and was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. While the Call for Papers for the Association’s 2018 conference is still a ways off, information on this year’s conference may be found at the conference website, including links to the organized panels and papers. Although the conference is still recent, it appears that individual papers may be uploaded at some point in the future.
Under the ‘Resources’ area of the site, we now have a space dedicated to Journals about the history of humanitarianism and humanitarian aid. The first journal added is Humanitarian Alternatives. Please visit their site and read the first issue of this new journal through our Journals page or via the Humanitarian Alternatives website directly.
If you know of other journals appropriate to the CNHH, please tell us know through the Contact Us page.
by Jill Campbell-Miller
posted jointly with Active History.
In the area of development finance Canada has lagged behind its international partners in the G7, only promising to establish a development finance institution (DFI) in the 2015 budget, some 67 years after the UK established the first DFI. This might come as surprise, since blending the interests of domestic Canadian businesses and official development assistance (ODA) has been an objective of the Canadian government since the early days of aid-giving in the 1950s, to the delight of some, and the dismay of others.
CNHH member Dr. Dominique Marshall recently gave a French language interview with University of Laval’s CHYZ on the history of children’s rights and humanitarian aid. Interview originally given on 25 February 2016.
Listen to the audio of this interview here.
