The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement response to the West African ebola outbreak 2014 / Christy Shucksmith
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Chapter
Title:
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement response to the West African ebola outbreak 2014
Author zone:
Christy Shucksmith
In:
Infectious diseases in the new millenium : legal and ethical challenges
Editor:
Cham : Springer, 2020
Physical description:
p. 65-88
Languages:
English
Abstract:
Combining a study of the IFRC as an organisation with a legal mandate of its own, elucidated in the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and the more general international legal framework, this chapter uses international law as a framework to reflect on the limits and effectiveness of legal measures in responding to Ebola. To this end, international law provides a logical and global method to respond to infectious diseases. This chapter finds that the mandate and practice of the IFRC in the response to Ebola provides material to critically analyse each of these parts in light of infectious disease proliferation in 2014–2016. Since outbreak was announced in early 2014 more than 10,000 Red Cross volunteers were trained in Ebola response. IFRC supported emergency operations in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have targeted 23 million people.
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