{"id":8146,"date":"2017-06-16T16:23:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T14:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=8146"},"modified":"2017-06-16T16:57:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T14:57:14","slug":"afghanistan-protection-of-civilians-in-armed-conflict-annual-report-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2017\/06\/afghanistan-protection-of-civilians-in-armed-conflict-annual-report-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"AFGHANISTAN PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN ARMED CONFLICT ANNUAL REPORT 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: UNAMA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

AFGHANISTAN PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN ARMED CONFLICT ANNUAL REPORT 2016 KABUL, AFGHANISTAN FEBRUARY 2017 \"\"<\/a><\/h4>\n

\u201cThis appalling conflict destroys lives and tears communities apart in every corner of\u00a0<\/em>Afghanistan. Real protection of civilians requires commitment and \u00a0demonstrated concrete\u00a0<\/em>actions to protect civilians from harm and for parties to the conflict to \u00a0ensure accountability\u00a0<\/em>for indiscriminate and deliberate acts of civilian harm.\u201d<\/em>
\nTadamichi Yamamoto, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for\u00a0Afghanistan, Kabul, February 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cChildren have been killed, blinded, crippled \u2013 or inadvertently caused the death of their\u00a0<\/em>friends \u2013 while playing with unexploded ordnance that is negligently left behind by parties to\u00a0<\/em>the conflict. Women continue to be brutally punished in parallel so-called \u2018justice\u2019 processes\u00a0<\/em>while religious minorities are targeted as they pray in their mosques. The consequences of\u00a0<\/em>each act of violence ripple through families and entire communities that are left broken,\u00a0<\/em>unable to sustain themselves and largely failing to obtain any semblance of justice or\u00a0<\/em>reparation. After nearly 40 years of constantly evolving armed conflict in Afghanistan, a\u00a0<\/em>Daesh franchise has now surfaced as an additional, deadly component. It is about time the\u00a0<\/em>various parties to the conflict ceased the relentless commission of war crimes and thought\u00a0<\/em>about the harm they are doing to their mothers, fathers, children and future generations by\u00a0<\/em>continuing to fuel this senseless, never-ending conflict.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, February\u00a02017<\/strong><\/p>\n

DOWLOAD REPORT :<\/strong> <\/span>\u00a0protection_of_civilians_in_armed_conflict_annual_report_2016_final280317<\/a><\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Methodology 1
\nExecutive Summary \u00a03
\nRecommendations \u00a011
\nI. \u00a0Human Rights Protection in Conflict-Affected Areas \u00a015
\nWomen and Armed Conflict \u00a015
\nChildren and Armed Conflict \u00a018
\nExplosive Remnants of War \u00a024
\nImpact of Armed Conflict on Health-Care \u00a027
\nImpact of Armed Conflict on The Right to Freedom of Expression \u00a031
\nDeliberate Sectarian Attacks against the Shia Muslim Religious Minority \u00a034
\nConflict-Related Displacement \u00a036
\nCross-Border Engagement \u00a037
\nII. \u00a0Ground Engagements \u2013 Civilians Caught in Cross-Fire \u00a039
\nCivilian Casualties Attributed to Afghan National Security Forces \u00a045
\nIII. \u00a0Anti-Government Elements & Daesh\/Islamic State Khorasan Province \u00a050
\nImprovised Explosive Devices \u00a052
\nSuicide and Complex Attacks \u00a059
\nTargeted and Deliberate Killings by Anti-Government Elements \u00a063
\nConflict-Related Abduction of Civilians \u00a066
\nParallel Justice Structure Punishments \u00a068
\nDeliberate Targeting of Civilians and Civilian Objects \u00a071
\nTaliban Claims of Responsibility and Public Statements \u00a075
\nDaesh\/Islamic State Khorasan Province \u00a078
\nIV. \u00a0Pro-Government Forces \u00a082
\nTactics and Incidents Causing the Most Harm to Civilians \u00a082
\nAerial Operations \u00a083
\nPartnered search operations \u00a089
\nKillings of Civilians by Afghan National Security Forces \u00a090
\nPro-Government Armed Groups \u00a093
\nAfghan Local Police \u00a096
\nGovernment Policies and Mechanisms for Civilian Casualty Mitigation \u00a098
\nV. Legal Framework \u00a0100
\nVI. Glossary \u00a0105
\nAnnex 1: Attacks Claimed by Taliban: Breakdown by Target Type \u00a0112
\nAnnex 2: Table of Taliban Allegations of \u201cWar Crimes\u201d \u00a0113
\nAnnex 3: Press Statements by USFOR-A PUBLIC AFFAIRS \u00a0114
\nAnnex 4: Statement by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on the
\nUNAMA 2016 Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict \u00a0116
\nAnnex 5: NATO Resolute Support Official Response to the UNAMA 2016 Report on
\nProtection of Civilians in Armed Conflict \u00a0119
\nAnnex 6: Taliban Response to UNAMA 2016 Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed
\nConflict \u00a0121<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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