Failing to protect humanitarian workers and structures might have serious repercussions on humanitarian work in the country".
"The 32nd was not known for protecting humanitarian convoys," said Ali el Abbar, who fought in the rebel army.
And they must sometimes be combined with "hard power", for example to protect humanitarian transport corridors with air power.
Timo Lange, a spokesman for the European Union Naval Force Somalia (EU Navfor), a mission to protect humanitarian shipping, attributed the decline in attacks to a number of factors including monsoon season.
Speaking to the Guardian on the margins of the donor conference, the Turkish prime minister said: "We have lost our hope and faith that we will get anything from the UN … The UN was formed to protect humanitarian values.
Italy still plans to lead a force of 5,000 soldiers to protect humanitarian aid missions to Albania.Russia and Belarus signed a treaty aimed at unifying their countries, but only after liberals in the Russian government removed much of its substance.Viktor Pynzenyk, Ukraine's leading economic reformer, offered his resignation as deputy prime minister.
In the June and July issue of Policy Review, published by the Hoover Institution, P. W. Singer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote that the growing industry of private military firms could be tapped to protect humanitarian aid workers or to intervene "whenever recalcitrant local parties break peace agreements or threaten the operation".
If things got really bad, NATO could use force to protect humanitarian relief operations.
In the following pages (chapter 6 and conclusion) and parts of chapters 1 2, she analyzes the dynamics and mechanisms of protecting humanitarian workers and agencies, highlights analytical and practical challenges facing the humanitarian cause, and provides recommendations for reasserting humanity.
While impressively argued, Larissa Fast's Aid in Danger critically examines the reasons why humanitarian workers and agencies become targets of violence and offers possibilities for further explorations of the proper approaches adopted to protect humanitarian workers and agencies from violence.
