1 UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Peacekeeping Fact Sheet, 31 October 2014, available at: www.un.org (all internet references were accessed in October 2014).

2 These codified behaviour in times of martial law; for the full text of the Conventions with respect to the laws and customs of war on land, see Hague Convention (II) with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land and its Annex: Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land, 29 July 1899 (entered into force 4 September 1900), available at: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/hague02.asp.

3 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, 17 June 1925, 94 LNTS 65 (entered into force 8 February 1928).

4 The International Committee of the Red Cross drew up a draft convention which was submitted to the Diplomatic Conference convened at Geneva in 1929. See Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 27 July 1929, 118 LNTS 343 (entered into force 19 June 1931), available at: www.icrc.org/ihl/INTRO/305?OpenDocument. This convention was then superseded by the 1949 Geneva Convention and the later Additional Protocols.

5 The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law, pp. xv–xxvii.

6 Ibid., pp. xv, xvi.

7 Ibid., p. xvi.

8 Alan Cooperman, “Missionaries Take In Orphans: Christian Group to Build Home for 200 Muslims”, Washington Post, 13 January 2005; “Guards to Protect Tsunami Orphans from Child Traffickers,” The Guardian, 5 January 2005; “The Tsunamis and Child Trafficking”, Editorial, The New York Times, 13 January 2005.

9 The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law, p. 211.