Fact sheet: Armed conflict and persons with disability - International Humanitarian Law Centre

The Fact sheet explains how armed conflict affects persons with disabilities, and how the law protects them.

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Soldiers with a weapon passing a group of people along the way.

A tree and in the background a river and a wide landscape.

Landscape with hills during sunrise in Ukraine. Photo: Antti Yrjönen / FCA

Two boys playing football between barbed wire and a concrete wall.

A street with barracks of a camp for displaced people.

A hut of bricks and in the background trees.

A street scene with houses and children playing in the street.

The center has regional teams based in Bamako, Beirut and Jerusalem, which covers conflicts in the Middle East, West Africa and emerging crisis worldwide. 

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Fact sheet: Armed conflict and persons with disability

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