1. A TOOLBOX FOR THE
HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT
LEARNING
TO SEE WITH
THE EYE OF
HENRY DUNANT
Principles in Practice:
Exploring Neutrality
WORKSHOP MANUAL PART 2/6:
“Putting Indigenous People
in the picture”

2. A TOOLBOX FOR THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
EXPLORING NEUTRALITY
In order to enjoy he confidence of all, the movement may not take
sides in hostilities or engage at any time in controversies of a political,
racial, religious or ideological nature.

3. Easy questions questions,
hard answers.
Does corporate funding
compromise neutrality?
Do Indigenous Peoples get
equitable access to ICRC?
(Unity, Humanity)

4. A TOOLBOX FOR THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
Embracing difference -
Seeing the whole repeated
In each of the parts.

5. A TOOLBOX FOR THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
OBJECTIVES FRAMEWORK 6: ACCESS
This is not a set of objectives. It is a framework for memorising objectives.
1 Public involvement 2 General community climate
3 Community roots 4 Partnership agencies
5 Specific services 6 Access
7 Infrastructure 8 Human resources
9 Redistribution of resources 10 Value for money
ACCESS

6. NEUTRALITY
Neutrality is not indifference,
inaction, incapacity or cold
compassionless closed doors behind the fence.
Neutrality cannot be bought and sold.
Neutrality is action with a heart
which beats the rhythms of humanity;
with both ears open wide to hear each voice
above chaotic war's insanity.
The neutral volunteer does not forget
her ideology, religion, race
or politics. She knows herself. And yet
she knows there is more than one human face
Neutrality is not weak or naïve,
steps boldly through barbed-wire, sees no sense
in suffering, Not frightened to believe –
neutrality embraces difference.
NEUTRALITY

7. A TOOLBOX FOR THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 1. PACIFIC ISLANDS
These people do not exist

8. A TOOLBOX FOR THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 2. BOTSWANA
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: BUSHMEN
CORPORATE ISSUE: DIAMOND MINING
MOVEMENT ISSUE: ISSUE INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT
GENOCIDE
These people are not human

9. A TOOLBOX FOR THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 3. AMAZONIA
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: AMAZONIAN ‘INDIANS’
CORPORATE ISSUES: LOGGING, PHARMACOLOGY
MOVEMENT ISSUES: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT
“WHITE” DISEASES
GENOCIDE

10. A TOOLBOX FOR THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 4. MEKONG DELTA
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: MEKONG DELTA FISHING COMMUNITY
CORPORATE ISSUES: DAM BUILDING; FISH FARMING;
POLLUTION
MOVEMENT ISSUE: DESTRUCTION OF FISH STOCKS
These people‘s food is poisoned

12. A TOOLBOX FOR THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 5. NIGERIA
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: NORTHERN NIGERIANS
CORPORATE ISSUE: OIL; MIGRANT WORKERS
MOVEMENT ISSUES: INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT; POLLUTION; GENOCIDE
Can you imagine
if she was in your shoes and
You were barefoot?

13. A TOOLBOX FOR THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 6. PACIFIC COAST
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: KWAKIUTL
CORPORATE ISSUE: FISH FARMING
MOVEMENT ISSUE: FISHING RIGHTS, CULTURAL GENOCIDE
These people’s fish are driven out by farms

14. These people are fighting in the courts
Kwakiutl Territorial Fisheries Commission Issues Ultimatum to Fish Farm
Companies
"We have relied on the wisdom and traditional knowledge of our elders for
thousands of years. To us this traditional knowledge is more important than any
studies, and based on this knowledge, we have been continuing our struggle
against the aquaculture industry which infringed upon our inherent aboriginal
rights by encroaching in our territories violating our rights with the help of the
governments."
full text

15. A TOOLBOX FOR THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 7. NATIVE AMERICA
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: NATIVE AMERICANS
CORPORATE ISSUE: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
MOVEMENT ISSUE: DIGNITY; GENOCIDE; LAND RIGHTS; HEALTH
These people are history (were exterminated)
Preservation of human
dignity, indeed....
Chinook, Cheyenne,
Sioux, Apache helicopters...
tomahawk cruise missiles..
...is a disguisting insult
to all those struggling
for social justice..
..placing Native names
on weapons of mass destruction
to exterminate poor and
oppressed people....

16. What's in a name
to place Native names on weapons of mass destruction to exterminate other poor
and oppressed peoples to preserve the so-called American way of life is a
disgusting insult to all those struggling for social justice.....
....(the) stark reality (is) that Native communities suffer the highest
unemployment, alcohol and drug addiction, school drop-outs and infant mortality
of any nationality.
HUMAN DIGNITY
I saw that when I moved from the Norwegian Red Cross to the United Nations, I
was moving from a truly international voluntary movement that embodies the
spirit of people’s commitment to assist each other; to a United Nations that is
striving to put people at the center of a multilateral approach and where we have
a common commitment to respect human dignity. It is all too easy to forget that
human dignity is at the very heart of our humanitarian work. It is the central pillar
of humanitarian endeavour. Yet, we live in a world where humanitarian
assistance is frequently seen as part of a “humanitarian enterprise”. Where all too
often humanitarian action is only seen as the movement of goods and
commodities. Where the constant mass media images of distress are no longer
capable of shock. This is why we risk dehumanizing our understanding of the
very nature of distress.
Statement by Mr. Jan Egeland
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs
and Emergency Relief Coordinator
to the 28th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
Full text

17. A TOOLBOX FOR THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 8. GUATEMALA
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: GUATEMALANS, MAYAN PEOPLES
CORPORATE ISSUE: PLANTATIONS
MOVEMENT ISSUE: RESETTLEMENT OF DEMILITARISED
PERSONELL
It must not happen to these

18. A TOOLBOX FOR THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
9 EXPLORING NEUTRALITY: 9. CENTRAL AMERICA
THIS IS AN END PRODUCT - WHAT IS IT TO ME?

19. A TOOLBOX FOR THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
10 EXPLORING NEUTRALITY:10. IRELAND
THIS PAINTING WAS MADE BY A GROUP OF TRAVELLERS IN DERRY