Series: Feet on the Ground: Humanitarian Work Across Cultures
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Publication Human Rights in Muslim-Dominant Lands: Social and Cultural Challenges among Palestinians(Center For Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM), 2012) Gibbons, Deborah E.; Center For Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM)Publication United States Navy Medical Missions(Center For Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM), 2013-08) Gibbons, Deborah E.; Center For Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM)The United States Navy operates a sizable fleet of ships. The larger ships support thousands of people for long periods of time, including facilities for health care and dentistry. They hold substantial food stores, and they have the capacity to produce drinking water by purifying seawater. Sometimes, these ships are called upon to provide urgent disaster relief, and they apply their resources to rescuing, feeding, and healing disaster victims. At other times, dedicated Navy medical ships respond to a disaster or perform humanitarian missions, delivering personal and community-based health services to people in need. Occasionally, Navy ships are diverted from their usual operations for several weeks or months to conduct planned humanitarian and civic assistance missions. In all of these situations, Navy physicians, health care staff, and helicopter pilots play crucial roles in saving lives and improving quality of life for people in the host nation.Publication Armenian Recovery and Development(Center For Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM), 2013-09-07) Gibbons, Deborah E.; Baho, Sally M.; Center For Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM)A long bridge connects Georgia’s and Armenia’s border-control stations. Knowing that Armenia has not fully recovered from the economic and political devastation of the Soviet occupation, we expected militaristic customs agents and degrading roads. We found neither. Friendly border guards processed us quickly into Armenia, responding with broad smiles when Sally asked how to say “thank you” in Armenian. Faced with the long and unpronounceable response, Deborah settled for the European-influenced alternative, “merci.”Publication A Day in the Land: (From Jerusalem to the West Bank and Back Again)(Center For Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM), 2011) Gibbons, Deborah E.; Center For Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM)Publication British Midwifery in the Bangladeshi Community of East London(Center For Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM), 2013) Gibbons, Deborah E.; Oliver-Dee, Philippa; Center For Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM)Publication Haiti: Cultural and social aspects of recovery and growth(Center For Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM), 2011) Gibbons, Deborah E.; Center For Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM)Publication Peacekeeping and women's rights: Latin American countries rise to the challenge(Center For Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM), 2016-02-15) Gibbons, Deborah E.; Baho, Sally M.; Center For Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM)United Nations peacekeepers did little in the 20th century to protect individuals, as they focused mainly on reducing large-scale conflict. Many of the nations in which peacekeepers served, such as the Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, and Sudan, suffered under governments that intentionally and often viciously violated the rights of their own people. United Nations (UN) peacekeepers, rather than intervening to save civilians, had occasionally been perpetrators of violence, especially against women. Eventually, public pressure led the United Nations Security Council to pass a series of resolutions demanding protection for civilians and inclusion of women during peacekeeping operations. By June of 2014, about 4.5% of deployed UN peacekeepers were women, and UN mandates had begun to include protection of civilians.