Institutions are often reluctant to openly engage on controversies around the patriarchal underpinnings of the humanitarian sector, or the hard questions around implementing rights-based approaches in spaces where the dominant social norms run counter to an enabling environment for principled humanitarian and development assistance. A reluctance to engage on these issues can lead to unintended suppression of gender justice efforts under the urgency and scale of needs-based humanitarian response. Pre-crisis unequal power relations can be visible or invisible, difficult to measure and even more difficult to address through humanitarian action. Engaging on root causes and drivers of human suffering is often viewed as “political” in contexts of closing civic space and restricted humanitarian access. This article will explore tensions and synergies between the humanitarian principles and the gender justice agenda with a view to helping humanitarian actors contribute to long-term goals of transforming social norms. The article applies a critical feminist lens to the humanitarian principles of neutrality and impartiality, with a focus on the wider development agenda, the nature of the State in a State-centric global order, and the continuum of violence. Drawing on critical feminist theory and decolonization discourses, and building on gender analyses of international humanitarian law, this article looks to queer the humanitarian principles of neutrality and impartiality within the context of the shifting aid system in which they are applied. The objective is help address some of the gaps in literature, identify ways in which aid actors can reduce unintended harm to the gender justice agenda, and help contribute to the more transformative agendas of gender justice.

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质疑中立和公正的人道原则：对人道行动、国际人道法有效性和性别公正的影响

各机构往往不愿意公开参与围绕人道主义部门的父权制基础的争议，或者在主导社会规范与有原则的人道主义和发展援助的有利环境背道而驰的空间中实施基于权利的方法的难题。在基于需求的人道主义响应的紧迫性和规模下，不愿参与这些问题可能会导致性别正义努力受到无意的压制。危机前的不平等权力关系可能是有形的，也可能是无形的，难以衡量，更难以通过人道主义行动解决。在封闭公民空间和限制人道主义准入的背景下，解决人类苦难的根本原因和驱动因素通常被视为“政治”。本文将探讨人道主义原则与性别正义议程之间的紧张关系和协同作用，以帮助人道主义行动者为转变社会规范的长期目标做出贡献。本文将批判性的女权主义视角应用于中立和公正的人道主义原则，重点关注更广泛的发展议程、以国家为中心的全球秩序中的国家性质以及暴力的连续性。本文借鉴批判性女权主义理论和非殖民化话语，并以国际人道法的性别分析为基础，试图在中立和公正的人道原则所适用的不断变化的援助体系背景下对其进行质疑。其目标是帮助解决文献中的一些空白，确定援助行动者可以减少对性别公正议程的意外伤害的方法，并帮助促进更具变革性的性别公正议程。