Bloomsbury Humanitarian Debates - Syria - Accessing those in need, Tuesday 5 February 2013
Syria – Accessing those in need event
Date: Tuesday 5 February 2013
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Venue: Manson Lecture Theatre, LSHTM, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
Type of event: Seminar
What are the obstacles to accessing people in need in Syria, and are they being addressed? Is humanitarian aid being appropriated by those in power without reaching the people who need it?
The second in the series of Bloomsbury Humanitarian Debates will focus on Syria, and address the issue of access to aid and the dilemmas faced by humanitarian organisations in providing essential services. Reports of people going hungry in besieged cities, and press releases from organisations such as Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) about wounded people being trapped without medical care, indicate the urgent need for lifesaving aid and the obstacles to providing it.
Please join us on 5 February at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at 17:30 to listen to the panel and join the debate on these issues.
Registration is required: http://syria-accessingthoseinneed.eventbrite.com/
Panel Members:
Professor Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations, SOAS, University of London
Sean Maguire, ICRC Spokesperson, International Committee of the Red Cross, Mission to the United Kingdom.
Jonathan Whittall, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders
Panel Chair:
Kate Kelland, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Health and Science Correspondent, REUTERS
The first Bloomsbury Humanitarian Debate was recorded and you can listen to it here:
https://soundcloud.com/birkbeckpolitics/profit-power-and-politics
Co-organised by Birkbeck, University of London; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); and Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Admission: Registration required
Contact: Karl Blanchet
Email: Karl.blanchet@lshtm.ac.uk
More information: http://syria-accessingthoseinneed.eventbrite.com
Location map and directions to all LSHTM buildings
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/2013/02/syria-accessing-those-in-need