This includes providing life-saving assistance to persons living in areas controlled by armed groups, supporting healthcare facilities that treat the sick and wounded in such areas, or strengthening groups’ knowledge of and respect for the applicable legal framework.
Our main reason for this is quite straightforward: to ensure humanitarian assistance and protection for persons affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence, in accordance with our mandate.
Humanitarian engagement with armed groups –notably with the approximately 100 non-State armed groups that can be legally classified as parties to non-international armed conflicts – has long been a defining feature of the ICRC’s work. ICRC engagement with non-State armed groups: why and how.
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