Humanitarian access in armed conflicts: current challenges

Humanitarian access is a crucial element of humanitarian action in situations armed conflict since it impossible to provide direct assistance without it. The right victims fundamental allows aid organizations make an independent assessment needs, ensure the effectiveness their activities and monitor fair distribution such aid. However, gaining maintaining population difficult for organizations. provision may be limited by fact that usually considered ad hoc, so there are often no established methods or rules granting access. Although not new issue international law, several challenges today securing conflict. article will consider problems understanding term "humanitarian access," rights responsibilities participants conflicts regarding access, obligations, restrictions on themselves, criteria various situations, interaction missions with combatant parties, related accreditation missions, coordination system assistance, legislative, regulatory gaps. suggest possible ways solve problems.