Humanitarian corridor
{{Short description|Type of temporary demilitarized zone}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}}A humanitarian corridor is a type of temporary demilitarized zone intended to allow the safe transit of humanitarian aid in, and/or refugees out of a crisis region. Such a corridor can also be associated with a no-fly zone or no-drive zone.{{cite web |title=Security Council hears conflicting Russian, Georgian views of worsening crisis |url=https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2008/sc9418.doc.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912132019/http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2008/sc9418.doc.htm |archive-date=12 September 2013 |publisher=United Nations Security Council |accessdate=March 14, 2012}}
Various types of "humanitarian corridors" have been proposed in the post–Cold War era, put forward either by one or more of the warring parties, or by the international community in the case of a humanitarian intervention. Humanitarian corridors were used frequently during the Syrian Civil War.
United Nations Safe Areas
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United Nations Safe Areas (UN Safe Areas) were humanitarian corridors established in 1993 in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War by several resolutions of the United Nations Security Council.
List of proposed humanitarian corridors
- Siege of Mariupol, March 2022, shut down twice by attacks
- United Nations Safe Areas
- Lachin corridor
- Battle of Grozny (1999–2000)#Siege
- Cyclone Nargis#Activists respond to the blockade of aid
- Humanitarian impact of the Russo-Georgian War
- 2008 Nord-Kivu campaign#Humanitarian aid corridor
- Gaza War (2008–2009)#Humanitarian ceasefires
- First Libyan Civil War#Humanitarian situation
- Safe Zone (Syria)
- Timeline of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: phase 1#3 March
- Timeline of the Gaza war (7 October 2023 – 27 October 2023)#11 October
See also
References
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Further reading
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- {{Citation|title=Glossary of Terms: Pauses During Conflict|date=June 2011|url=https://www.unocha.org/sites/unocha/files/dms/Documents/AccessMechanisms.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904091615/https://www.unocha.org/sites/unocha/files/dms/Documents/AccessMechanisms.pdf|archive-date=4 September 2017|publisher=United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs}}
- {{Cite book|last1=Djukić|first1=Dražan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KJFyDwAAQBAJ|title=The Companion to International Humanitarian Law|last2=Pons|first2=Niccolò|date=2018|publisher=Brill Publishers|isbn=978-90-04-34201-9|pages=391}}
- {{Citation|title=How do humanitarian corridors work?|date=December 2016|url=https://www.mediterraneanhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Executive-Summary-Humanitarian-Corridors.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517230518/https://www.mediterraneanhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Executive-Summary-Humanitarian-Corridors.pdf|archive-date=17 May 2019|publisher=FCEI, Community of Sant'Egidio, Unione delle Chiese metodiste e valdesi, MediterraneanHope}}
- {{Citation|last=Price|first=Roz|title=Humanitarian pauses and corridors in contexts of conflict|date=17 September 2020|url=https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/15662/883_Humanitarian_corridors_and_pauses.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130144153/https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/15662/883_Humanitarian_corridors_and_pauses.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|archive-date=30 January 2022|publisher=Institute of Development Studies}}
- {{Cite journal|last1=Rolando|first1=Francesco|last2=Naso|first2=Paolo|date=2018|title=Humanitarian Corridors to Italy: An Interview with Professor Paolo Naso|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26617345|journal=Harvard International Review|volume=39|issue=2|pages=64–67|jstor=26617345|issn=0739-1854}}