This collection of tools is intended for humanitarian organisations, human rights actors, researchers, clinicians, policymakers, donors and all other actors committed to protecting healthcare in conflict.
Toolkit
By:
Insecurity Insight
Center for Public Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins University
The International Rescue Committee and Physicians for Human Rights
Attacks on health care represent an area of growing international concern. This article compares two separate datasets compiled using publicly-available data and identifies underreporting of attacks on health care facilities as one reason for minimal overlap of the two datasets.
In response to growing concerns regarding the insecurity of aid operations and the resulting decline in humanitarian access, this study aims to document those practices that have enabled humanitarian organisations to maintain effective operations in contexts characterised by high security risks.
This article explores the non-straightforward role of data about attacks on health in creating policy and normative change to safeguard access to healthcare and protect healthcare providers in conflict.
This Harvard Law School PILAC Briefing Memorandum outlines, in a question-and-answer format, some of the foundational issues related to humanitarian exemptions.
Report
By:
Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict
This report is the second in a series examining potential solutions to bank derisking and provides recommendations to address some of the current challenges NGOs face in using value transfer services as a legitimate tool of last resort to make payments in countries suffering from bank derisking.
The UN SanctionsApp is an interactive analytical tool that can be used in real time by both scholars and policy practitioners who have an interest in examining, or who are working on designing and implementing, UN sanctions.
Drawing on eight case studies across five countries, this report investigates how formal and informal norms condition the behaviour of soldiers and fighters depending on the kind of armed organization to which they belong.
This research paper analyses how armed groups and de facto authorities (AGDAs) behave and under what circumstances they may comply with international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL).