News Release

New challenges for humanitarian protection

Peer-Reviewed Publication

BMJ

(New challenges for humanitarian protection) BMJ Volume 319 14 August 1999 pp430-5

In the Education and Debate section of this week's BMJ a team from Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies in the States discusses the role physicians can and, they argue, should play in establishing civilian protection during hostilities and providing neutral space where medical and aid workers can deliver relief.

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Contact:

Claude Bruderlein, Research Fellow and Special Adviser to UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, MA, USA
cbruderl@hsph.harvard.edu


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