Protection of UN Staff in Armed Conflict Areas in Afghanistan

Case Study: Death on Anil Raj

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201209.148How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Civilian Protection, State Responsibility, Afghanistan

Abstract

Civilian or United Nations Personnel Protection during wartimes has been regulated in International Humanitarian Law, namely in Geneva Convention IV 1949 regarding Civilian Protection in Times of War and the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel. Civilians under any circumstances shall get protection as they are not involved in war conflict. On 24 November 2019, a UN officer car was attacked by a grenade in the city of Kabul, resulting in the death of a UN staff member. Problems arise with regard to civilian protection and state responsibility namely whether there are regulations regarding civilian protection in non-international armed conflict and how the responsibilities of the offending state are applied in regards to this case under International Law. This study applies normative legal research method namely by examining library materials and then analyzed based on the theories to get conclusions. The results obtained from this study are that civilian protection is regulated in Article 3 of the 1949 Geneva Convention which prohibits civilians from being made object of attack, and Convention on the protection of UN staff and Associated Personnel in Article 7 that UN staff should not be made object of attack. Furthermore, the responsibility of the state of Afghanistan related to this case can be done by providing compensation or satisfaction.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Raphaela Jayaputra
AU  - Teddy Nurcahyawan
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/12
TI  - Protection of UN Staff in Armed Conflict Areas in Afghanistan
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 942
EP  - 948
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201209.148
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201209.148
ID  - Jayaputra2020
ER  -