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joerene.avilesFollowed up on: sprinkler systems, current investigations/ findings from 9/11 investigation into building failures, and policies regarding fire codes for buildings
Followed up on: sprinkler systems, current investigations/ findings from 9/11 investigation into building failures, and policies regarding fire codes for buildings
People interested in the stories of Katarina and Sand and how the storms compared
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) drafted the policy.
Emergency relief according to them was poorly managed and misspent. The agency in charge of emergency response was primarily a counterterrorism agency, not a medical agency.
It appears that is is an expanded version of the document created orginally in order to facilitate changes in the treatment of mental health and better define what an IMD needs and is.
The main findings are about gender based violence in armed conflicts and the political implications of addressing gender based violence (separating and giving special treatment versus treating everyone as neutral) in humanitarian aid efforts.
Sexual violence has a place in humanitarianism; when it comes to getting treatment in humanitarian aid efforts gender-based violence is recognized as a "crime against humanity" that needs to be addressed as they are common in armed conflicts.
Gender-based violence is approached as both a medical and health issue; the immediate wounds as the result of gender based violence (usually sexual violence) is focused on for treatment in emergencies but the deeper issue of the "rape epidemic" resulting from the system/ culture is not "treated".
The EPA, who want to prevent loss of life in incidents where contamination containment is delaying treatment.
In this book: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=2WCAAAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&…
But I couldn't access all of it, to my knowledge.
It was less of a directly researched article and more of a theory hypothesized with several decades of first-hand observation and in-context understand of the subject.