Executive Summary
1. Introduction
2. Protecting civilians in conflict
Indifference to gross violations of international humanitarian law; How the major powers themselves perform; Falling short of wider protection responsibilities: arming and training abusers; Seeking Solutions: reaffirming the rule of international humanitarian law; Negotiating humanitarian access; Diplomatic pressure to protect civilians; Peacekeeping and peace-enforcement; Holding war criminals to account; Controlling arms; Making progress: the role of the UN; Recommendations
3. Humanitarian aid: driven more by politics than need
Critical funding shortfalls; Inadequate and skewed funding; Political hotspots and neglected crises; A case of fleeting attention; The role of major donor governments; Earmarking: favouritism in place; The scale of missing information: a scandal of accountability; The Humanitarian Financing Studies; Results of research: the donor-funding whole is worth less than the sum of his parts; Steps forward: Good Donorship Prinicples & Implementation Plan; Building protection into assessments, and the role of the UN; Recommendations
4. Protecting those displaced by conflict: reinforcing refugee rights
Asylum: worrying moves to restrict protection; Discrimination in the wake of the ‘war on terror’; Insecurity in asylum: where protection fails; Recommendations
5. Conclusion: Reinforcing an international system to protect civilians in conflict
Summary of recommendations
Endnotes