Russia has declared a temporary ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine War to provide “<\/span>Humanitarian Corridors<\/b>” for civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n Humanitarian Corridors <\/span>are demilitarized zones in a specific area and for a specific time. They are created when both sides of an armed conflict agree to them.<\/span><\/p>\n The United Nations considers humanitarian corridors to be one of several possible forms of a temporary pause of armed conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n Need: <\/b><\/span>The corridors are necessary when cities are under siege and the population is cut off from basic food supplies, electricity and water.<\/span><\/p>\n Purpose: <\/b>Through these corridors, either food and medical aid can be brought to areas of conflict, or civilians can be evacuated.<\/span><\/p>\n Sets up by,<\/b>\u00a0In most cases, humanitarian corridors are negotiated by the United Nations. Sometimes they\u2019re also set up by local groups.<\/span><\/p>\n Access to corridors: <\/b>Access to humanitarian corridors is determined by the parties to the conflict. It\u2019s usually limited to neutral actors, the UN or aid organizations such as the Red Cross.<\/span><\/p>\n Concerns: <\/b>There is a risk of military or political abuse. For example, the corridors can be used to smuggle weapons and fuel into besieged cities.<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article \u201cExplained: What are humanitarian corridors<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in Indian Express <\/b>on 8th Mar 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Russia has declared a temporary ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine War to provide “Humanitarian Corridors” for civilians. What are Humanitarian Corridors? Humanitarian Corridors are demilitarized zones in a specific area and for a specific time. They are created when both sides of an armed conflict agree to them. The United Nations considers… Continue reading Explained: What are humanitarian corridors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-172816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704825698},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are Humanitarian Corridors?<\/b><\/h5>\n