The phrase "object of protection" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe something that someone is trying to protect, or something that is being provided with protection by someone. For example, "The endangered species is the object of protection of several conservation groups in the region."
The most effective way of protecting civilians is usually to interpose highly capable military forces on the ground between the objects of protection and their attackers.
After seven sessions, the Senate approved a set of articles that make children subjects of rights, and not objects of protection.
But as Dworkin's carefully reasoned argument shows, liberalism can make good on that proclamation only by (re)making the object of its protection into a mirror reflection of its own limitations.
This Figure concerns the noise barrier which is the most classical 3D object of acoustic protection.
Winfrey lashed into the former object of her protection, reportedly asking him to explain why he "felt the need to lie".
I begin with a proposition that ought to be unassailable: Political speech is the primary object of First Amendment protection.
Previous to 1824 these two articles had been equally the object of the greatest protection and care.
"International and Afghan military planners have an obligation to respect and protect civilians at all times, and medical facilities and personnel are the object of a special protection.
During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, McEwen introduced legislation to end President Gerald Ford's ban on U.S. government employees assassinating foreign leaders (Executive Order 12333) in order to clear the way for Saddam Hussein's removal, McEwen objecting to the "cocoon of protection that is placed around him because he holds the position that he holds as leader of his country".
