Establishing humanitarian lanes during COVID-19

• Main Authors: Cook, Alistair David Blair, Chen, Christopher Zhiming
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Humanitarianism; Disaster Response; Disaster Preparedness; Disaster Governance
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144729
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

COVID-19 is severely impacting the humanitarian system. It has forced countries to focus on containing the pandemic with national lockdown measures — hindering humanitarian action and denying aid to many affected communities in the Asia Pacific. But countries in the region have begun negotiations to...