The White Helmets Commission ( Spanish : Comisión de Cascos Blancos ) is a body of the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship in charge of designing and implementing international humanitarian assistance . It has a network of bilateral and multilateral cooperation links through which it coordinates immediate response to social-natural disasters; it works on rehabilitation, reconstruction and development tasks; and it promotes risk prevention and management, in Argentina and abroad.
6-530: White Helmets may refer to: White Helmets Commission , a body of the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship White Helmets (Syrian Civil War) , a volunteer organization in Syria and Turkey The White Helmets (film) , a 2016 documentary film Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team , UK motorcycle team also known as
12-497: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages White Helmets Commission White Helmets has its origins in 1994, in the "Commission against Hunger and Poverty", an international civil body created to combat those social problems. This body marked the beginning of the participation of developing countries in the provision of international humanitarian assistance, which until then has been reserved for donor countries, and introduced
18-670: The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Programme, which deploys personnel for missions. Since then, the UN General Assembly has renewed its support for the Initiative every three years, highlighting the importance of the Argentine experience in addressing humanitarian crises, through the organization of volunteer corps. The most recent expression of support was at the 67th UN Assembly , in 2012. At
24-536: The White Helmets Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title White Helmets . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White_Helmets&oldid=925708904 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
30-645: The concept of complex humanitarian emergency. It embraced the purpose of supporting UN activities within the sphere of emergency humanitarian assistance and of rehabilitation, reconstruction and development in times of transition. Furthermore, it was established that the Commission would act pursuant to the guidelines of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs ( Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs —OCHA— since 1998) and work in coordination with
36-477: The use of volunteers as a specialized professional corps. In that year, United Nations General Assembly adopted and approved the Commission as an Initiative, named it White Helmets and incorporated into its agenda the response to man-made or natural disasters, conflicts and emergency situations of any kind. Thus, the White Helmets Commission extended its reach to other aspects included in
#541458