Establishing humanitarian lanes during COVID-19

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Cook, Alistair David Blair, Chen, Christopher Zhiming
• مؤلفون آخرون: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• التنسيق: Commentary
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2020
• الموضوعات: Humanitarianism; Disaster Response; Disaster Preparedness; Disaster Governance
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144729
• المؤسسة: 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 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.