The international president of MSF reflects on UN Security Council Resolution 2286, pointing out that it has never really been respected since it was adopted in 2016 and that the current situation shows that violations have actually worsened.

The Resolution was unanimously adopted by the UN Security Council on 3 May 2016, sponsored by more than 80 States. MSF was instrumental in pushing for its adoption, after the shocking attack of our hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, which killed 42 people.
The Resolution was a political reassertion of the legitimacy and protected status of humanitarian medical action, the most protected object under International Humanitarian Law.
States and Institutions are very good at writing laws and regulations, and very poor at enforcing them. What we need today is to denounce this lack of political will. We need fewer words and more action, fewer non-binding commitments and more concrete political responsibility.