

80) United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to analyse one aspect of the law regulating humanitarian relief operations: the issue of arbitrary withholding of consent and the consequences thereof.

In his 2013 Report on the Protection of Civilians in armed conflict the Secretary-General instructed (at para.

However, insufficient attention appears to have been paid to the legal framework that applies to the provision of humanitarian relief in armed conflict. Parties to conflict often impede the delivery of much needed humanitarian relief supplies exacerbating hunger, disease and want. By Dapo Akande and Emanuela-Chiara GillardĪs many current conflicts across the globe demonstrate, humanitarian access is a central challenge to the protection of civilians in armed conflict.
