Health,
Human Rights
and
Interventions
Enquiry Question 3: How are human rights used as arguments
for political and military intervention?
, 8A.7 There are different forms of geopolitical interventions in defence of human rights
There are different forms of geopolitical intervention in defence of human rights
Geological interventions are the exercise of a countries power in order to influence the
course of events outside its borders, eg:
Development aid
Military aid
Military action
Sanctions
Trade embargo
Why would countries/international organisations intervene in other countries?
Responding to natural disasters, eg: Haiti 2010
Fight against terrorism, eg: Afghanistan, Iraq
Fight the spread of disease, eg: West Africa Ebola
Regime change - overthrow a dictator, eg: Iraq
Oil resources, eg: Iraq?
Ethnic cleansing, eg: genocide in Rwanda
Types of Interventions
1. Development Aid
AID
Official Development Aid Voluntary Aid
Directly Indirectly
Multilateral Aid
Bilateral Aid
Donor countries
One-to-one NGO's
giving to
relationship between Work at a local scale in collaboration with
organisations such as
donor and recipient local communities, eg: Water Aid, Oxfam
the WB who then
country, eg: UK-India
distribute it
Often bottom up projects
Often top down projects Eg: low tech, small scale, community led,
Eg: dams, roads, power stations etc meeting basic needs, eg: water, clothes,
shelter, eg: pumpkin tanks, mosquito nets
Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Development Aid
Advantages Disadvantages
Humanitarian aid (food, water, shelter) Most countries don’t give UN target o
following a disaster, eg: 2010 Haiti 0.7% of GNI as aid
earthquake Emerging countries receive aid, eg: UK
Aid to tackle diseases, eg: 2014, Ebola in gives most aid to India
West Africa, eg: mosquito nets Neo-colonialism/indirect control, eg:
Human Rights
and
Interventions
Enquiry Question 3: How are human rights used as arguments
for political and military intervention?
, 8A.7 There are different forms of geopolitical interventions in defence of human rights
There are different forms of geopolitical intervention in defence of human rights
Geological interventions are the exercise of a countries power in order to influence the
course of events outside its borders, eg:
Development aid
Military aid
Military action
Sanctions
Trade embargo
Why would countries/international organisations intervene in other countries?
Responding to natural disasters, eg: Haiti 2010
Fight against terrorism, eg: Afghanistan, Iraq
Fight the spread of disease, eg: West Africa Ebola
Regime change - overthrow a dictator, eg: Iraq
Oil resources, eg: Iraq?
Ethnic cleansing, eg: genocide in Rwanda
Types of Interventions
1. Development Aid
AID
Official Development Aid Voluntary Aid
Directly Indirectly
Multilateral Aid
Bilateral Aid
Donor countries
One-to-one NGO's
giving to
relationship between Work at a local scale in collaboration with
organisations such as
donor and recipient local communities, eg: Water Aid, Oxfam
the WB who then
country, eg: UK-India
distribute it
Often bottom up projects
Often top down projects Eg: low tech, small scale, community led,
Eg: dams, roads, power stations etc meeting basic needs, eg: water, clothes,
shelter, eg: pumpkin tanks, mosquito nets
Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Development Aid
Advantages Disadvantages
Humanitarian aid (food, water, shelter) Most countries don’t give UN target o
following a disaster, eg: 2010 Haiti 0.7% of GNI as aid
earthquake Emerging countries receive aid, eg: UK
Aid to tackle diseases, eg: 2014, Ebola in gives most aid to India
West Africa, eg: mosquito nets Neo-colonialism/indirect control, eg:
