You.Me.We. is consulting with two organizations in Pakistan on protecting human rights in mass settlement camps post-floods.
For Volunteers for Pakistan, we're consulting on best practices for setting up camps to avoid human rights violations that have occurred post-disaster in other mass settlement camps. Although the problems, for example, of violence against women were issues long before we became aware of them, we have first-hand experience talking with mass settlement residents about these issues following both Hurricane Katrina and the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti. Combining that experience with international law, we're able to give camp administrators some "best practices" advice with some legal "teeth."
For Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy, we're providing monitoring and assessment of camps, specifically focusing on the treatment and safety of children. Cheryl will be on the ground in Pakistan later this fall and through much of the winter, monitoring conditions in mass settlement camps.
Stay tuned to this blog for Cheryl's first-hand accounts of her work in the camps.
