This volume is a campaigning report detailing how civilians - especially those in forgotten conflicts - are suffering as humanitarian aid follows political priorities rather than the greatest need.

This volume is a campaigning report detailing how civilians - especially those in forgotten conflicts - are suffering as humanitarian aid follows political priorities rather than the greatest need.

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
Holdibng 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 practise
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 its parts
Steps forward: Good donorship principles &
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
References