• Learn about Sphere
• Standards
• Cases
• Handbook

Humanitarian Charter

• Humanitarianism, the Sphere Project and handbook
• Humanitarian Charter
  • Exercise
  • Structure of the Humanitarian Charter
  • What is the Humanitarian Charter, and why is it needed?
  • Exercise: Humanitarian actions and agencies
  • The Humanitarian Charter principles and their legal basis: principle 1
  • The International Bill of Human Rights
  • Additional human rights treaties
  • What do human rights mean?
  • The Humanitarian Charter principles and their legal basis: principle 2
  • The Humanitarian Charter principles and their legal basis: principle 3
  • Quiz on the Humanitarian Charter
  • Conclusion

The objectives of this module are to:

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• explore what the Humanitarian Charter is
• identify the sources of its three principles
• describe basic principles and duties relating to human rights, international humanitarian law and refugee law