Establishing humanitarian lanes during COVID-19

Establishing humanitarian lanes during COVID-19

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...

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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
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary: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 normalise international travel, with Australia and New Zealand being the first to initiate bilateral discussions over the establishment of a ‘Trans-Tasman bubble’ and a ‘humanitarian corridor’ to the Pacific during the pandemic.

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