INTRODUCTION According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 130 million people are in constant need of humanitarian assistance due to natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and conflicts, among other factors. These health crises can compromise the resilience of healthcare systems, which are essential for achieving the health objectives of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the U...

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and Zimbabwe have disproportionately affected vulnerable civilian populations and have been complicated by political restrictions on humanitarian access. 1 In areas frequently embroiled in war and political instability, aid agencies often face the challenge of negotiating with militant authorities in order to secure access. This is not a new problem. The challenge of negotiating access with mil...

during the years after the end of the cold war and parallel to the forming a new practice for the use of force under the title of the humanitarian intervention, different theoretical endeavors have been made to understand the formation of the mentioned interventions. the theoreticians, using constructivism, cosmopolitanism, english school and realism theories, have tried to explain the said phe...

mitigation of violence and protection of fundamental human rights, in time of war, constitute the main object of international humanitarian law. the subject of present study is to determine whether or not, apart from international obligations, the duty to respect some basic principles of this law results directly from the constitution of the islamic republic of iran. any answer to this question...