Euromaidan SOS appeal to the UN member states
HUMANITARIAN CORRIDORS. THE UNCONDITIONAL DUTY TO PROTECT CIVILIAN POPULATION DURING ARMED CONFLICT
The distinction between military and civilian targets, between combatants and civilians is a fundamental principle of international humanitarian law that regulates the conduct of hostilities.
Сivilian population should never be a target of an intentional attack and it should receive the utmost protection from the impact of armed conflict in all situations. It is also explicitly prohibited to impose famine on the civilian population as a method of warfare.
The Geneva Conventions, as well as the rules of customary international humanitarian law, require belligerent states to ensure the safe removal of civilians from the dangerous zones of active hostilities. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court classifies the use of famine as a method of warfare and obstruction of humanitarian aid delivery as war crimes.
The Ukrainian government has repeatedly stated its readiness to ensure the removal of civilians from particularly dangerous areas where active hostilities are taking place. The Ukrainian side also officially addressed the International Committee of the Red Cross and asked for assistance in arranging such “humanitarian corridors”.
We call for the immediate creation of “humanitarian corridors” to allow for the removal of civilians from the particularly dangerous areas of active hostilities. Hundreds of people, including children, pregnant women and the elderly, are currently on the brink of humanitarian disaster without access to medicine, food, and drinking water. Such a situation is absolutely unacceptable!
We call upon the UN member states to demand from the Russian Federation to comply with the widely accepted rules of the international humanitarian law, the laws of humanity and the requirements of the public conscience e.g. with the principle which Russia proposed to the world in 1899, and to ensure the immediate and unconditional security of humanitarian corridors.
Attacks on civilians, resort to famine and the denial of access to humanitarian aid are international crimes which are subject to universal jurisdiction and have no statute of limitations. They can be prosecuted in any country in the world, regardless of the passage of time.
#SafePassageForCivilians #LetKidsGo #LetCiviliansLeave #LetICRCwork
List of settlements in need of immediate removal of civilians from the dangerous zones of active hostilities [BEING UPDATED]:
Kyiv Oblast
Ivankiv (no water, no electricity)
Rudnya-Tal’s’ka (no electricity)
Lyutizh (no electricity, as the CHP was bombed)
Bucha
Irpin
Vyshhorod
Vasylkiv
Borodyanka
Vorzel (no food, water, heat, electricity)
Stoyanka (no electricity)
Buzova (no food, water)
Hostomel
Hurivshchyna
Mykhailivka
Rubezhivka
Nemishaevo
Zdvyzhivka
Chernihiv Oblast
Novyi Bykiv (no electricity due to the explosion of the bridge)
Nosivka (no food or water in shops)
Yasna Zirka (no food or water, the roads are blocked)
Eastern and Northern Chernihiv Oblast
Sumy Oblast
Sumy (no water or electricity, people thaw snow)
Shostka
Romny
Konotop
Okhtyrka
Lebedyn
Lypova Dolyna
Kharkiv Oblast
entire oblast, except its South-East
Mykolaiv Oblast
Bashtanka district
Snihurivka district
Bereznehuvate direction
Zaporizhia Oblast
Tokmak
Berdyansk
Velyka Bilozerka directions
Enerhodar (affected area in case of NPP damage)
Kherson Oblast
Kherson (no connection with the population)
Chaplynka
Kalanchak
Heniches’k
Nova Kakhovka directions
Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts
Mariupol (no electricity, water, food)
Volnovakha
