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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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1447292023-03-05T17:14:48Z Establishing humanitarian lanes during COVID-19 Cook, Alistair David Blair Chen, Christopher Zhiming S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies East Asia Forum Humanitarianism Disaster Response Disaster Preparedness Disaster Governance 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. Published version 2020-11-23T01:50:57Z 2020-11-23T01:50:57Z 2020 Commentary Cook, A. D. B., & Chen, C. Z. (2020). Establishing humanitarian lanes during COVID-19. East Asia Forum. Canberra: Australian National University. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/06/30/establishing-humanitarian-lanes-during-covid-19/ https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144729 This article is part of an EAF special feature series on the novel coronavirus crisis and its impact. 1 4 en East Asia Forum © 2020 The Author(s). This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported Licence. application/pdf |
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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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