Oxfam Australia welcomes Declaration for the Protection of Humanitarian Workers
Oxfam Australia Media Release
Oxfam Australia welcomes the Australian Government’s effort to champion a declaration aimed at safeguarding humanitarian personnel at the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week.
Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Officer Lyn Morgain acknowledged the importance of the declaration in the protection of frontline aid workers.
“We commend the Australian Government’s leadership in highlighting the critical need to protect humanitarian workers. Minister Wong’s advocacy on this issue is timely and necessary.
“As we consider the need for protection, we remember the hundreds of humanitarian workers who have tragically lost their lives in Gaza, but also in other conflict areas such as Yemen, Syria, and among the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
“On World Humanitarian Day this August, humanitarian organisations, including Oxfam, came together to call for stronger action to protect aid workers in conflict situations. We are pleased to see that the Australian Government has now responded to our calls.
“Civilians, including humanitarian and health-care workers, continue to suffer from attacks in violation of the laws of war and human rights. Far too often, these breaches go unpunished.
“The Australian Government, alongside others, has the ability to apply immediate pressure on states failing to adhere to international humanitarian law.
“We call on the Australian Government to take further action by ensuring that existing accountability mechanisms are effectively used to hold perpetrators of these violations accountable.”
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Phil Pryor
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Return to home pageWill mad murdering superstition drenched evilist Netanyahu read this? No?
Agree, Phil. If they know they are identified as aid workers they will try to kill them. The last year has been diabolical for real people in that part of the world.
Reactionary PR masquerading as policy, unheard of by most, from a far away place responding to pressure from RW MSM and Dutton’s LNP in the same far away place (ditto the risible appointment of an anti-semitism ombudsman); rinse and repeat…..
I note that Hezbollah has once again pledged not to buckle under the pressure from Israel until a ceasefire and withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza.
Once a ceasefire and withdrawal of troops takes place – and hostages are released – in Gaza they have undertaken to stop firing rockets into Israel.
Is nobody listening ?
Terry, Biden seems not to be. Like me, you wonder how far it goes before all-out war?
Terry:
We are. Netanyahu and his extremist enablers, not so much.
Good.
But war has got knobs on it, like Netanyahu, and many others including the suppliers of weaponry to those knobs.
The ZIONAZIS are responsible for 40,000+ assassinations of Palestinian women & kids by the amoral ZION@ZI IDF led by Bibi the ZION@ZI Butcher of Gaza.
BAN + DIVEST + SANCTION = BDS ALL ISRAELI GOODS & SERVICES.
NEC, yes, the Zionists neo-terrorists are on a roll. They ‘fixed up’ Gaza with their asymmetric one-sided ‘war’ on Palestinians and have now turned their attention to Lebanon. Yesterday the IDF blew up and killed about 569 people in Lebanon targeting how many people (if you believe their story)? One, two, a few? Collateral damage of 560+, all good. Seems Zionists want to start WW3, dragging one country at a time into their web of deception. Aust should cut relations with all terrorist nations.
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If you value this website then it might be useful to send a sub in.
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