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In-Depth: Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict

Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict

March 2003
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Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict

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Part 1: The law and civilians in conflict
- Protection under IHL
- Violations of IHL
- The role of aid agencies
- Culture of protection
Part 2: Implementing International Humanitarian Law
- The key role of the ICRC
- Humanitarian principles
- Impartiality and Independence
- Protection in the field
- The need for implementation of IHL
- The International Criminal Court (ICC)
Part 3: Priorities for Humanitarian Action
- Humanitarian access
- Non-State Actors
- Separation of Armed Elements
- Refugee protection
- Rule of law, justice and reconciliation

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AFRICA-ASIA: Web Links and Resources

Reliefweb Documents

An Easy Reference To International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law
Definition of Internally Displaced Persons
Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
Guiding Principles of Humanitarian Assistance
UNOCHA/ Reliefweb
UN Secretary-General says using child soldiers can no longer be done with impunity, as Security Council holds day-long debate on children and armed conflict (14 Jan 2003)
Reports of the Secretary-General on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict (Mar 2001), (Sep 1999) and (Nov 2002)
UN Security Council Presidential Statement and Aide-Memoire on 13 Core Objectives of Protecting Civilians in Armed Conflict (15 Mar 2002)

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Médecins Sans Frontières International (MSF)

Overseas Development Institute - Humanitarian Protection (ODI)

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Courts
UN (2001) Report of the Secretary-General on Prevention of armed conflict (S/2001/5747) June
UN (2000) Report of the Panel on UN Peace Operations (the Brahimi report) A/55/305 - S/2000/809, August 2000
UN Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, 15 December 1999
UN Security Council warns of HIV/AIDS risk to Stability, Security
United Nations Treaty Collection
UN reports of the UN Secretary-General to the Security Council on
- Protection of civilians in armed conflict
- Children and armed conflict
- Women, peace and security
- Small arms
- Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
- Regional and country specific peacekeeping missions
www.un.org

UN System

Other Resources

Crimes of War: What the public should know
www.crimesofwar.org
Focus on Nation-Building - including Afghanistan and Rwanda
www.developments.org.uk
Forced Migration Review
www.fmreview.org
IHL Databases
www.ihlresearch.org
International Humanitarian Law Research Initiative
www.ihlresearch.org
Small Arms Survey and yearbooks
www.smallarmssurvey.org
USAID (2001), The Role of Foreign Assistance in Conflict Prevention, Conference Proceedings and Background Papers
www.usaid.gov
World IDP map by the Global IDP Project
www.idpproject.org
The Humanitarian Enterprise: Dilemmas and Discoveries
www.amazon.com
Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace-Or War
www.amazon.com

A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, David Rieff, published Simon & Schuster
A Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law, Francoise Bouchet-Saulnier, Littlefield Publishers (2002)
'Positioning Humanitarianism in War: Principles of Neutrality, Impartiality and Solidarity', Hugo Slim, Development in Practice, vol. 7, no. 4, 1997

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