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[...] beyond the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), few humanitarian agencies saw protecting civilians from violence as central to their mission. [...] in Darfur before they were expelled, my colleagues trained women to build stoves that burned fuel more efficiently, limiting the number of trips they make to collect firewood, which were dangerous because of the high incidence of rape.We also lobbied UN peacekeepers to provide foot patrols to protect women while they worked.
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Safeguarding Civilians
oXFAM AND THE 1949 GENEVA conventions were both born of the Second World War; and, unfortunately, both are needed now as much as ever. In 1942, a group of Oxford academics lobbied and raised funds to send relief to a long-forgotten famine in Nazioccupied Greece. Determined to safeguard civilians even in the midst of conflict, it was entirely in the spirit of the Conventions that would be agreed when hostilities were over.
For the next four decades, Oxfam perhaps gave relatively little tho...See the full content of this document
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