Publication

This short bill is intended to amend two UK Acts to enable the government to ratify two international agreements protecting military medical personnel and humanitarian workers. The bill sanctions and protects the 'red crystal' as a new symbol to protect humanitarian personnel in armed conflict instead of (or in addition to) the existing red cross or red crescent. Further, it extends the definition of protected UN workers to include those delivering humanitarian, political or development assistance in peacebuilding operations and those delivering emergency humanitarian protection.