Critical Analysis of Technological Intervention in the Humanitarian Crisis of Sudan and the UN Agencies Resistance
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Humanitarian Crisis, Sudan, Technological Interventions, UN AgenciesAbstract
Abstrak - Sudan merupakan negara yang digambarkan oleh PBB sebagai negara dengan krisis kemanusiaan terburuk pada tahun 2024. Teknologi berperan sebagai mesin pelanggaran HAM oleh pihak yang berkonflik, dan menjadi senjata bagi badan PBB yang bekerja di Sudan untuk mengatasi bencana sosial dan ketahanan pangan dengan memberikan tindakan dan solusi jangka pendek dan jangka panjang melingkupi berbagai bidang. Pengumpulan data dalam tulisan ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan sejarah dan analisis data. Keterbatasan makalah penelitian ini adalah tidak adanya kesempatan bagi peneliti untuk terjun langsung ke Sudan dan mendapatkan data langsung. Sebelum melakukan penggolahan data, semua data akan diperiksa validistasnya ke dalam sumber terpercaya. Dari hasil analisis data dalam makalah tersebut, dapat disimpulkan bahwa intervensi teknologi dalam krisis kemanusiaan telah berkontribusi dan berhasil dalam banyak hal positif dengan menjadi harapan terakhir bagi para korban dan sebaliknya, disalahgunakan dan gagal. untuk membuka masalah Sudan kepada komunitas internasional. Abstract -Sudan is a country that has been described by the UN as the worst humanitarian crisis in 2024. Technology became the tool for the human rights violations by the conflicting parties and gun for UN agencies working in Sudan to entangle the social disaster and food security by providing short term and long-term actions and solutions in many fields. The data collection in this paper was carried out using history and data analysis. The limitation of this study paper was the absence of a chance for the researcher to go directly to Sudan to get first-hand data. All data will likely be checked into reliable sources. From the results analysis data in the paper, it can be concluded that technological intervention in the human crisis has contributed and succeeded in many positive ways to being the last platform for the victims and on the contrary, being abused, and failed to open the Sudanese issue to the international community.References
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