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Summary: Growing the Sheltering Tree focuses on risky
situations - explaining what rights-based
strategies can be employed by those working
in such conditions, so they can protect those
under threat.
Growing the Sheltering Tree’s focus is on risky situations - explaining what
rights-based strategies can be employed by those working in such
conditions, so they can protect those under threat.
It is a wide-ranging document providing snapshots of programmes and
projects gathered in the field with the aim of exchanging and testing new
ideas and activities.
Field studies from Afghanistan, Kosovo (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia),
Sierra Leone and Sudan are complemented by accounts from Colombia,
Angola, Sri Lanka, Mozambique and Tanzania.
The book’s six sections cover:
· humanitarian protection – definitions, types of action;
· developing an integrated approach – partnerships, negotiating
access under threat;
· strengthening protection of environment – capacity building,
humanitarian law, peacekeeping;
· preserving life through humanitarian action – family tracing,
health, education, response to hostage taking and trafficking;
· promoting and protecting the rights of specific groups – women’s
participation, children’s rights, displaced people; and
· remedial actions – ending impunity, truth commissions,
reconciliation and rehabilitation. It concludes with on-line resources and
bibliography for field workers.
See the
href='http://www.unicef.org/rightsresults/index_resources.html'>UNICEF
website for further information