Tag: Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

  • Nation & World

    Panel looks at ‘the crime of all crimes’

    On Dec. 9, 1948, the United Nations adopted a convention that for the first time in history provided a legal definition for genocide. Organized mass murder with the intention of destroying an ethnic or national group, a legacy of World War II, was still a fresh world memory — just as it is fresh today,…

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Responding to Congo’s epidemic of violence against women

    The rape itself was brutal enough, but the woman’s nearly severed hand shocked Susan Bartels. It was early November and her first day working at Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, a…

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Humanitarian aid professionals strategize

    The public and private agencies that respond to war and disasters sometimes respond disastrously — and it’s time to do something about it. That was the basic message of a three-day Humanitarian Health Conference at Harvard Sept. 6-8, which drew more than 120 emergency physicians, epidemiologists, and professional aid workers from 68 organizations.

    6 minutes