Risk Factor 14. Serious threats to humanitarian or peacekeeping operations: Conflict-related conduct threatens the protection provided by international humanitarian law to humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping personnel not taking direct part in hostilities.
Indicators
14.1 Perceptions of partiality or political interference by humanitarian or peacekeeping operations, their members, the broader international community, international, regional, or national organizations, individual countries, or others sponsoring or participating in the operations.
14.2 Increase in identity-based conflicts and perceptions about humanitarian or peacekeeping operations as associated with the opponent or as an obstacle to plans of elimination, marginalization, or displacement.
14.3 Increased intensity of the conflict and scarcity of livelihoods or other resources.
14.4 Fragmentation of parties to the conflict or disintegration of chains of command within them.
14.5 Interference, limitation, or prohibition of access or movement of humanitarian or peacekeeping operations or their personnel.
14.6 Tampering with or removal of signs identifying protected objects or locations where humanitarian or peacekeeping operations are stationed or providing support.
14.7 Incidents of improper use of a flag of truce, of the flag or the military insignia and uniform of the United Nations, and the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions.
14.8 Attacks against locations near humanitarian or peacekeeping operations and personnel, or on the routes taken by them during their activities.
14.9 Discourse or evidence of plans that suggest a threat, or the incitement or tolerance of acts of violence against humanitarian or peacekeeping operations and personnel.
14.10 Disrespect, threats, or increase in attacks to objects, property, or persons using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions or other humanitarian or peacekeeping operations.
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