International law — and above all the Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols — as well as the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel and its Optional Protocol, include essential norms regulating the arena for humanitarian action.
Le droit international, avant tout les Conventions de Genève et leurs Protocoles additionnels, mais aussi la Convention sur la sécurité du personnel des Nations Unies et le personnel associé, ainsi que son Protocole facultatif, contiennent des normes essentielles permettant de réglementer l'espace de l'action humanitaire.