#HUKO Opening Ceremony - Eröffnung und erstes Panel des humanitären Kongresses 2013 in Wien

2. Humanitärer Kongress: "Gender matters!" (Details: www.humanitaerer-kongress.at)

Teil 1: Eröffnungsrede der EU-Kommissarin Kristalina Georgieva und erstes Panel: Women, Girls, Boys and Men -- Different Needs, Equal Opportunities?
zweites Panel: Health Care in Danger

Panel 1: Women, Girls, Boys and Men -- Different Needs, Equal Opportunities? Moderator & Master of Ceremony Ulrike v. Pilar Humanitarian Advisor, MSF Germany
Panel Members

Kristalina Georgieva European Commissioner
Mbuyiselo Botha Gender Activist, Sonke Gender Justice Network Cape Town, South Africa
Anne Street Senior Humanitarian Policy Advisor, Caritas England

In the rush to provide humanitarian response when a disaster hits or a conflict erupts, gender issues are often neglected and may even seem irrelevant. Mainstreaming gender does, however, not imply, addressing or focusing primarily on the needs of women or girls. Putting on a "gender lens" quite simply means recognizing the different needs, capacities and contributions of women, girls, boys and men alike.

To be effective, humanitarian actions have to be centred on the needs of individuals and communities. The best way to know their needs and solutions, and to design and assess interventions, is through direct dialogue with persons targeted for humanitarian action — women, girls, men and boys — and involving them in programme design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Collecting sex and age disaggregated data is an important starting point.

This panel will present different challenges in humanitarian aid and discuss whether humanitarian interventions can be effective and accountable without addressing the different needs of women, girls, men and boys.

Health Care in Danger
Keynote Speech Yves Daccord Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Moderator
Robert Dempfer Head of Social Policy Unit, Austrian Red Cross
Panel Members

Yves Daccord ICRC
Alistair Dutton Humanitarian Director, Caritas Internationalis
Jasveen Ahluwalia Gender in Emergencies Coordinator, CARE

Conflict and armed violence take more and more space in urban and populated settings. When the fighting starts, access to health care becomes a vital issue for people who are sick or wounded. Often access is delayed or made impossible by endless obstruction such as an ambulance held up at a checkpoint.
Many conflicts have generated discrimination against people who are trying to access health care, based on their ethnic or religious origin. This goes straight to the heart of medical ethics: you don't ask wounded people which side, ethnic group or religious confession they are from when they are losing blood. You just treat them, period.

In rural areas, additional obstacles to health care claim many lives where lack of safety and conflict prevail: lack of transport, looting of health centres, among others.

Violence preventing the delivery of health care is primarily a security rather than a health problem. It is vital to engage with the military, with armed groups, with States, with the health community, with the Red Cross and Red Crescent partners and other non-governmental partners to find practical solutions to this important humanitarian concern.

Wars are bad enough; let's at least ensure that all measures are taken to minimize the negative impact on people needing health care.
Unter dem Motto "Gender matters! Das Geschlecht spielt eine Rolle" brachte der zweite Humanitäre Kongress internationale Experten der Humanitären Hilfe am 8. März - dem Weltfrauentag - nach Wien.

Hochkarätige Redner in der Universität Wien: Die Eröffnungsrede hielt Kristalina Georgieva, EU-Kommissarin für internationale Zusammenarbeit, humanitäre Hilfe und Krisenreaktion.


Der Kongress soll den Stellenwert der Humanitären Hilfe unter Entscheidungsträgern auf nationaler, europäischer und internationaler Ebene aufwerten. Neben Georgieva waren weitere hochrangige Vortragende anwesend: Der Generaldirektor des Internationalen Komitees vom Roten Kreuz Yves Daccord sowie Alistair Dutton, Direktor der humanitären Projekte der Caritas Internationalis beleuchteten die Themen aus der internationalen Praxis.
Thematisch widmete sich die Veranstaltung in diesem Jahr schwerpunktmäßig den
unterschiedlichen Bedürfnissen von Frauen und Männern - aber auch
Menschen mit Behinderungen - in Krisen und Katastrophen. Dabei werden
in den Panels u.a. Themen wie medizinische Versorgung, Sicherheit in
Flüchtlingslagern, die Beziehung zwischen Medien und
Hilfsorganisationen diskutiert.



Der Kongress wird von Ärzte ohne Grenzen, CARE, Caritas, Diakonie,
HOPE'87, Jugend Eine Welt, Licht für die Welt, dem Österreichischen
Roten Kreuz, World Vision sowie der AG Globale Verantwortung und dem
Institut für Internationale Entwicklung der Uni Wien organisiert.

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