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# Emergency Sex (and Other Desperate Measures)

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    A great introduction to the horrors & frustrations of front-line humanitarian work.
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2018*

‘Emergency Sex: True Stories from A War Zone’, is a kind of diary, published in 2004 by three youngish UN workers, Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait, & Andrew Thomson. They tell personal stories about their humanitarian work on the front lines of humanitarian crises during the 1990s & early 2000s. These were in the blood lands of Cambodia, Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti, Bosnia where the UN as an institution and its masters on the Security Council failed to protect human rights, or to prevent Genocide.This is an unrelentingly honest, first-hand account of the filth and horror, and of the struggle to manage the personal emotional experience of humanitarian work. When humanitarian workers are under great pressure, they work it off, like soldiers, through drinking and sex, and still feel the nightmares, sleeplessness, sense of isolation from an external world that can’t understand what they’ve been through. Heidi Postlewaite came under criticism for writing about her sexuality. The book implicitly raises questions about the moralistic reaction of aid agencies to #Metoo. Rape and harassment are always wrong. Humanitarian workers, including women, are sexual people. And there are a thousand degrees of ambiguity about the role of power and money in sexual relationships in the field, just as there are in marriages in New York, London, or Paris.Kofi Anan said this book should be suppressed, I suppose for revealing that UN staff are human, that the UN is hopelessly inefficient, and that the UN failed to save lives, frustrating these idealistic young workers. Well, we knew all that. It’s the bla, bla coming out of New York and Geneva, the slogans and formulas, the numerous wasteful international meetings, that makes the UN look bad. This book improved my image of the UN because it reminded me of the many idealistic and well-trained UN staff I’ve met in the field who work hard to help people with real and often desperate needs.Anyone thinking of a career in humanitarian operations or seeking to understand the UN should read this book.

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    Engrossing and provocative
  

*by Y***M on Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2015*

This is a book that carries the reader with it, it puts the experiences of the three authors, Andrew, Ken and Heidi right into oneself as the story unfolds. It is so sad to see the atrocities meted out on fellow human beings by other people and to bear witness at the gross failures of those in power, the United Nations and the world international community. The accounts of the Rwanda and Bosnia genocides and the killings in Haiti and Liberia are very disturbing and what is worse, they happened at the watch of the UN or its inaction. Human beings are born equal, they should be treated with equity and dignity whatever skin colour, religion or ethnicity......I got personally engrossed in the lives of Heidi, Andrew and Ken and would have wanted to know more as to what happened in their personal lives after leaving the UN. Did Andrew actually settle back in Cambodia with his wife Suzanne? Did Ken ever get married? Did Heidi find new love after losing Marc? Did they ever start families?Such is the power of this book. It leaves many questions regarding the role of the UN, even right at the end when it was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

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    Gripping and heart wrenching
  

*by E***A on Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2014*

I've read this book twice now.  Once when I was young and idealistic and hoping to do UN work myself, and once 10 years later even though life took me in a very different direction.  Both times I read it at break neck speed, completely immersed in the events and places described.  I like the format which alternates between the three writers throughout but is also carefully tied together to be coherent and consistent.  It's a very easy read for 'non fiction' with simple language and bite sized first person accounts, although, in terms of content many events / experiences described are unimaginably awful and will likely make you feel sick to your stomach.  UN is rightly criticised, and the moral question of whether to help peoples in need is answered in a the affirmative, but the macro politics of the UN and international humanitarian aid is not covered in this book.  If you're looking for an action packed first person account of work in war torn countries this is a book for you.

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