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Russians strike hit Mariupol hospital complex
On May 3, 2016, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2286, aiming to condemn attacks against medical facilities, personnel and patients in conflict situations, and to affirm their rightful protection towards the international framework under which all states must abide. The UN Secretary General also provided the Security Council with recommendations on measures to enhance the protection of, and prevent acts of violence against medical patients and health personnel.
Since then, little has been done by UN member states to concretely translate the resolution into sustained action. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to urge the Security Council to endorse the Secretary General's recommendations.
In September 2016, members of the United Nations Security Council met to review recommendations to enhance UN Resolution 2286, passed earlier that year, which called on member states to uphold international humanitarian law and protect civilians and medical facilities in conflict zones. In the two years since the resolution was unanimously passed, military attacks on hospitals, doctors, patients and public spaces have continued unabated, including deadly airstrikes on Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)'s own facilities in Yemen and Syria.
MSF International President Dr. Joanne Liu, a physician from Montreal, addressed that meeting of the Security Council, and called upon member states to live up to their obligations and to stop the relentless assaults on civilian and medical targets.
On May 3, 2016, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2286, aiming to condemn attacks against medical facilities, personnel and patients in conflict situations, and to affirm their rightful protection towards the international framework under which all states must abide. The UN Secretary General also provided the Security Council with recommendations on measures to enhance the protection of, and prevent acts of violence against medical patients and health personnel.
Since then, little has been done by UN member states to concretely translate the resolution into sustained action. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to urge the Security Council to endorse the Secretary General's recommendations.
In September 2016, members of the United Nations Security Council met to review recommendations to enhance UN Resolution 2286, passed earlier that year, which called on member states to uphold international humanitarian law and protect civilians and medical facilities in conflict zones. In the two years since the resolution was unanimously passed, military attacks on hospitals, doctors, patients and public spaces have continued unabated, including deadly airstrikes on Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)'s own facilities in Yemen and Syria.
MSF International President Dr. Joanne Liu, a physician from Montreal, addressed that meeting of the Security Council, and called upon member states to live up to their obligations and to stop the relentless assaults on civilian and medical targets.
MSF Pulse: How Can War Have Rules?
MSF Canada
Does even war have rules? International humanitarian law is supposed to protect civilians from atrocities and allows MSF access to people affected by conflict, but governments are failing to live up to their obligations.
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