Mr. Dominic Crowley:

The single biggest challenge we are seeing is the routine violation of international humanitarian law - the deliberate targeting of health facilities; the destruction of standing crops and water sources; what is at least the failure to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants but, in many cases, is the active targeting of non-combatant populations; and the lack of available sanction to address the greatest violaters. International humanitarian law, IHL, reinforced after the Second World War the consolidation of the Geneva Conventions. There is hardly a convention that is not being violated in certain conflicts. That is the context in which we are substantially trying to work, which is why one sees that the level of fatalities for aid workers is at a greater level now than it has ever been.