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The purpose of the article is to highlight the scope of the overlap between existing commitments in the area of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and legal obligations prevailing under International Human Rights Law. It initially describes the emergence of DRR as a discrete area of disaster management and brings to the fore some of the commitments that States have undertaken by negotiating and adhering to the DRR framework. These commitments are then compared to the practice and case law of universal and regional human rights treaty monitoring bodies that have addressed alleged violations of human rights connected to natural or human-made disasters.The concluding paragraph briefly reviews the similarities between the political obligations contained in the most recent DRR instruments and the legal obligations imposed on States by the human rights instruments they have signed and ratified.

On 19 December 2018, the UN General Assembly approved Resolution 73/195 endorsing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (Global Compact for Migration or GCM). Despite its non-binding status, the GCM has raised strong expectations and attracted criticism on various grounds, much of which has been commented upon elsewhere. One of the most overlooked, yet crucially relevant, aspects is the lack of attention devoted to migrants' exercise of their political rights. The granting of these rights is an essential tool to both promote inclusion and integration of migrants in the receiving societies and also to ease their future voluntary return to their home countries. The GCM represented a unique occasion to stress the importance of these rights in the interest of both States and the migrants themselves. A closer look at the content of the GCM highlights that, unfortunately, this important opportunity was missed.

AbstractDealing with the current flow of migrants flocking to the shores of southern European countries remains high on the international agenda. At the end of 2016, 276,957 migrants were waiting in Libya to cross the sea. Many of them were subject to human rights violations and abuses such as arbitrary detention, torture, unlawful killings, sexual exploitation and even slavery (IOM, 2017). The international response has been, so far, insufficient and new ideas and practices are urgently needed. After providing an overview of the legal framework and of the efforts carried out by the relevant international and regional organizations, this article focuses on recent treaties concluded between Italy and Libya, and argues that the new bilateral agreements represent an example of how States are responding to this challenge in an attempt to strike a balance between the need to strengthen the protection of migrants' rights and the necessity to guarantee the security of national borders.

A taxonomy of disasters in international Law / Giulio Bartolini -- R.I.P. R2P : on the controversial "responsibility to protect" doctrine and why it adds no value to disasters / Karen Da Costa -- Assistance to disaster victims in an armed conflict : the role of international humanitarian law / Sarah Williams and Gabrielle Simm -- A right to international (humanitarian) assistance in times of disaster : fresh perspectives from international human rights law / Marlies Hesselman -- The human rights approach of the International Law Commission in its work on the protection of persons in the event of disasters / Ronan McDermott -- Limitation and derogation provisions in international human rights law treaties and their use in disaster settings / Emanuele Sommario -- States' failure to take preventive action and to reduce exposure to disasters as a human rights issue / Mirko Sossai -- Integrating human rights into disaster management : normative, operational and methodological aspects / Annalisa Creta -- Non-state humanitarian actors and human rights in disaster scenarios : normative role, standard setting and accountability / Tommaso Natoli -- Mapping basic subsistence rights in post-disaster scenarios / Marco Inglese -- The human right to adequate housing in post-disaster contexts / Raquel Rolnik -- Addressing discriminations in disasters scenarios : an international and EU law perspective / Federico Casolari --The right to a healthy environment : delineating the content (and contours) of a slippery notion / Giovanna Adinolfi -- The right to know : the role of transparency, access to information and freedom of expression in overcoming disasters / Alice Riccardi -- Economic and social rights in times of disaster : obligations of immediate effect and progressive realization / Ellen Nohle and Gilles Giacca -- Cultural rights in the prevention and management of disasters / Eleni Polymenopoulou -- A human rights-based vulnerability paradigm : lessons from the case of displaced women in post-quake Haiti / Ingrid Nifosi-Sutton -- Indigenous communities : from victims to actors of disaster management / Kristin Hausler -- The protection of migrants in disasters / Alice Sironi and Lorenzo Guadagno -- Temporary protection after disasters : international, regional and national approaches / Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani --The Nansen Initiative's protection agenda for people displaced by disasters across borders / Walter Kälin

China's and Italy's Participation in Peacekeeping Operations: Existing Models, Emerging Challenges examines the peacemaking efforts of these two countries through the lenses of international relations, history, sociology, and law. Using the specific experiences of Italy and China, this book addresses larger questions of how and why foreign powers intervene in the name of peace.