Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council on the protection of civilians in armed conflict

Provides details on: the access to vulnerable populations; separation of civilians and armed elements; and rules of law, justice and reconciliation. Also analyses several new challenges - sexual exploitation, commercial exploitation, and terrorism - and their impact on the protection of civilians. Includes provisional version of the roadmap for the protection of civilians, which reorganized the recommendations along action-oriented themes identified in the round tables and echoed in the aide-memoire. DAA

23 p. : tables

"Annex: Roadmap for the protection of civilians": p.17-23.
Submitted pursuant to the request contained in letter by the President of the Security Council dated 21 June 2001 (S/2001/614); 3rd report on the subject.