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Arms transfers, humanitarian assistance and international humanitarian law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2010

Peter Herby
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The International Committee of the Red Cross has witnessed in its work for war victims throughout the world the increasingly devastating effects for civilian populations of the proliferation of weapons, particularly small arms. The difficulties of providing humanitarian assistance in an environment where arms have become widely available to many segments of society are well known to most humanitarian relief agencies today. However, until recently the relationships between the availability of weapons, the worsening situation of civilians during and after conflict and the challenges of providing humanitarian assistance have not been addressed directly.

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 38 , Issue 325 , December 1998 , pp. 685 - 691
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1998

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5 Convention on the prohibition of the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines and their destruction, of 18 September 1997, reprinted in IRRC, No. 320, September-October 1997, pp. 563–578.