The world must pay attention to impunity, protest it, and be determined to act so that the political and military leaders responsible for violating the laws of war in Ukraine and beyond are held accountable by the international community. That needs to change over the next 100 days in Ukraine. The age of impunity has been gathering momentum for the past decade. Two hundred million people are trying to survive in conflicts where humanitarian access constraints are very high or extreme, according to ACAPS, a humanitarian analysis nonprofit.įrom Afghanistan to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Mali, modern warfare has come to be defined by militaries and governments denying aid access committing widespread gender-based violence, including rape and targeting aid workers and civilian infrastructure, particularly health facilities. Attacks on health facilities have increased 90 percent in the past five years while attacks on aid workers have increased 85 percent in the past decade.
In war zones today, nearly 90 percent of casualties are civilians. This age was not inevitable, but it will get worse unless those who believe in the rule of law tackle it now.
Russia’s war represents the worst of our age of impunity-an era when militaries and the political leaders that control them have abandoned the basic laws that govern war and protect civilians.
Ukraine’s suffering is abhorrent-but unfortunately not abnormal.
#Hundred days of real food full#
A hundred days into the war in Ukraine, the abiding images are of impunity: a pregnant woman being evacuated from a maternity hospital under attack, a bombed theater full of children, millions of refugees forced out of their homes and their country for no real reason.
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