European governments’ new sense of urgency around armed conflict should be a catalyst for much wider all-risk preparedness in every European country', according to this article in The New Humanitarian.
In this opinion article, by Hugo Slim, Director of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at Blackfriars Hall at the University of Oxford, he makes the case that 'If European governments are strengthening their military defence, they must also strengthen their humanitarian preparedness in line with their obligations in the Geneva Conventions.
"Humanitarians at many European Red Cross societies may have experience working at train crashes, a wildfire, a football match, or even running complex blood supply services and hospital discharge services. But this is very different to responding to casualties at multiple urban bomb sites."
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