ICRC Q&A and lexicon on humanitarian access

17-06-2014 Article

Topics covered:

1. What causes limitations to humanitarian access?
2. How is the ICRC addressing these restrictions of access?
3. What is ICRC’s position regarding cross-border operations?
4. Are the ICRC’s concerns about humanitarian access recent, or linked to specific contexts?
5. What are the rules of IHL dealing with humanitarian access?
6. Do the rules of IHL themselves impose restrictions on humanitarian access?
Includes a lexicon of expressions and terms