'The Law Regulating Humanitarian Relief Operations in Armed Conflict' by Emanuela-Chiara Gillard
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The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL), University of Cambridge hosts a regular Friday lunchtime lecture series on key areas of International Law. Previous subjects have included UN peacekeeping operations, the advisory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, the crime of aggression, whaling, children and military tribunals, and theories and practices for proving individual responsibility criminal responsibility for genocide and crimes against humanity.
This lecture, entitled 'The Law Regulating Humanitarian Relief Operations in Armed Conflict', was delivered at the Lauterpacht Centre on Friday 29th April 2016 by Emanuela-Chiara Gillard, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and a Research Fellow in the Individualisation of War project at the European University Institute. |
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| Created: | 2016-04-29 15:49 |
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| Collection: | LCIL International Law Seminar Series MOVED |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | University of Cambridge |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | International Law; International Humanitarian Law; Armed Conflict; Public International Law; |
| Abstract: | The provision of life-saving assistance to people affected by armed conflict lies at the heart of humanitarian actors’ operations, and the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 lay down rules regulating humanitarian relief operations. Despite this, this area of international humanitarian law has received limited attention, possibly because challenges in implementing relief operations tend to be operational rather than legal in nature.
Recently, however, the refusal of some belligerents to allow relief to reach people in extreme need, and the politicisation of relief operations in other contexts, have drawn attention to this area of the law. Representatives of states, humanitarian organisations and academics have expressed - often diverging - views on central legal questions. At the same time, the Security Council has focused on humanitarian assistance with unprecedented vigour, establishing novel arrangements and imposing targeted sanctions on those who impede relief operations. This calls for a closer look at key elements of the law regulating humanitarian relief operations in armed conflict, including the question of whose consent is required to conduct relief operations; the circumstances in which withholding consent would be arbitrary; the rules on the implementation of relief operations; and the consequences of unlawful impeding of relief operations. |
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