Are Current International Legal Frameworks Enough to Protect Conflict-Affected Populations?
On Monday the 2nd December 2024, the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health (CHH)-Lancet Commission held its first webinar focused on international laws and treaties as they pertain to humanitarian settings and health.
This webinar explored the multi-layered legal standards governing populations affected by conflict settings, focusing on the interplay between international human rights, armed conflict, and refugee laws, with a focus on health. It also examined why new international treaties may not resolve persistent policy and operational gaps, and different ways to improve accountability.
Agenda:
- Introduction (5 minutes) – Ana Mateus, Executive Editor, The Lancet, and Paul Spiegel, Distinguished Professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Director of CHH, and Chair of the CHH-Lancet Commission
- Presentations (10 minutes each):
- David Cantor, Professor and founding Director of the Refugee Law Initiative at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, Commissioner of CHH-Lancet Commission
- Malavika Rao, Postdoctoral Researcher at C-EENRG, Department of Land Economy, at the University of Cambridge, NextGen Scholar of CHH-Lancet Commission
- Hugo Slim, Senior Research Fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at the University of Oxford and at the Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, Commissioner of CHH-Lancet Commission
- Interactive Q&A (25 minutes) – Engagement with panelists.
There will be quarterly CHH-Lancet Commission webinars throughout 2025 addressing important and challenging issues that face the humanitarian community to ensure that the Commission receives as much input from all interested colleagues from anywhere in the world. Stay tuned for future webinars.
Watch the webinar recording
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