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This paper looks at the challenges and opportunities facing mediation practitioners as we begin the second decade of the 21st century.
This Manual provides the most up-to-date restatement of existing international law applicable to air and d missile warfare, as elaborated by an international Group of Experts.
A background paper prepared for the workshop on Human Rights and Humanitarian Action convened by the IASC Sub-Working Group and co-hosted by UNICEF, the UN High Commission for Human Rights and...
This Manual and the companion set of Guidelines provide a structured, easy-to-follow approach to humanitarian negotiations with armed groups. The publications fill a need which has long been...
This training module has been funded by the United Nations Development Programme in collaboration with the Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the General Secretariat of the United Nations for...
Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration...
The tool seeks to answer the question that aid workers often face: How can we achieve the necessary balance between principles and pragmatism in our operations?
Today's multiple and complex humanitarian crises pose challenges to the mandates and response capacities of the United Nations and the international community. The increasing demand for...
Specific rules of international humanitarian law (IHL) protecting humanitarian personnel and their operations are applicable in the context of the non-international armed conflict in Afghanistan....
The purpose of this note is to provide information about, and provisional guidance for implementation of the key operational elements of resolution 1960