Over the years we have known that in times of war, there are wounded people. It doesn’t matter where you come from, your participation, or if you just were a civilian. Today we are living a delicate situation with Syria’s civil war. Deeply concerned we have noted that this situation has been affecting a lot of people, especially civilians who have been caught up in the middle of the battle and the only thing that has left them is losses. Recognizing this matter the UN has mandated a number of peacekeeping operations for the protection of civilians from physical violence. Alarmed by Syria´s difficult position in order to take good care of its refugees,and help the country, nations from all over the world have been sending troops, military experts and police to help the people in need and keep them safe from violence. Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India are the top contributors in people to make these operations possible and successful. The UN started this mandate with the Sierra Leone Mission back in 1999. Since then, this project has been kept in the Security Council and has been used in many situations around the globe. The plan to keep this mandate successfully going is to develop a conceptual framework for protection of civilians, comprehensive strategies, which assists them in harnessing all available resources for the task; and developing protection of civilians training courses targeted at personnel about to deploy, as well as those already working in peacekeeping operations. These courses are aimed at military, police and civilian personnel.
Considering the problems the world is facing currently – war, for
instance – the discussion regarding this topic has been extense. For the past decade we have been witnesses of
this global tragedy. Millions of people have died because of this, because of
bombing, terrorist and government attacks. Sudan, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Darfur and now Syria are the top countries where these missions have
been held with the financially support of The United States, China, France,
Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, Russia, Italy, and Canada, together donating
over $7.87 billion. To this day, there are uncountable victims of this
catastrophe, some of them are dead, and some of them are now known as refugees.
Countries from all around the world have been empathic with this subject,
helping refugees to settle in a safe place by giving them food, shelter and
clothes which makes a huge difference for them. This is possible because over
100,000 people from these helpful countries are sent to these special locations
in order to protect civilians, Monitor the cessation of hostilities, accompany
and support the local Armed Forces, coordinate these activities with the
Governments and to extend its assistance to help ensure humanitarian access to
civilian populations and the voluntary and safe return of displaced persons.
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