IRRC No. 865
Editorial: Humanitarian actors
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Multiple humanitarian actors with different objectives, principles and modi operandi intervene in situations of armed conflict and internal violence in order to alleviate the plight of the victims of those situations: governmental and nongovernmental organizations, international organizations, national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, private companies and even the armed forces. Additionally, each operational context has its own distinctive characteristics relating to existing military, political and socioeconomic factors and religious and cultural conditions.