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Humanitarian corridor

type of temporary demilitarized zone

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Source revisionApr 9, 2025
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A humanitarian corridor is a type of temporary demilitarized zone intended to allow the safe transit of humanitarian aid in, and/or refugees out of a crisis region. Such a corridor can also be associated with a no-fly zone or no-drive zone.

Various types of "humanitarian corridors" have been proposed in the post–Cold War era, put forward either by one or more of the warring parties, or by the international community in the case of a humanitarian intervention. Humanitarian corridors were used frequently during the Syrian Civil War.

United Nations Safe Areas

United Nations Safe Areas (UN Safe Areas) were humanitarian corridors established in 1993 in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War by several resolutions of the United Nations Security Council.

List of proposed humanitarian corridors

Siege of Mariupol, March 2022, shut down twice by attacks

United Nations Safe Areas

Lachin corridor

Battle of Grozny (1999–2000)#Siege

Cyclone Nargis#Activists respond to the blockade of aid

Humanitarian impact of the Russo-Georgian War

2008 Nord-Kivu campaign#Humanitarian aid corridor

Gaza War (2008–2009)#Humanitarian ceasefires

First Libyan Civil War#Humanitarian situation

Safe Zone (Syria)

Timeline of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: phase 1#3 March

Timeline of the Gaza war (7 October 2023 – 27 October 2023)#11 October

See also

Humanitarian aid in conflict zones

Opposition to immigration

References

Further reading

Glossary of Terms: Pauses During Conflict (PDF), United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, June 2011, archived (PDF) from the original on 4 September 2017

Djukić, Dražan; Pons, Niccolò (2018). The Companion to International Humanitarian Law. Brill Publishers. p. 391.

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