Humanitarian Aid Agencies are dealing with various number of challenges in the course of their humanitarian operation in dangerous situation of armed conflict. Partly, these challenges are related to the problem of enforceability of International Humanitarian law, for instances regulating of aid workers operations belongs to this category. But the other challenges referred to the new emerging context of current armed conflicts which dictates whole new rule of conducts for Humanitarian aid operations. Also, numerical increasing of these humanitarian entities have created some other challenges like desperate need to harmonize their operations to avoid wasting limited resources, counter-productive measures, and frustration in the process of accomplishing their duties. All of these challenges generally, in one hand, are related to situation of armed conflict and other exigencies and in the other hand to the typology of different humanitarian aid organizations. These are the main factors which lead to inefficacy in the process of aiding stricken population. Enumerating the challenges which would be faced in the course of humanitarian operations including, numerous attacks on aid workers group, unwillingness to harmonize conducts of all these different entities helping population in crisis and inability to provide effective aid which eventually may led to the failure of humanitarian aid organizations to achieve their final targeted aim to meet the urgent needs of people in crisis or at least make it so formidable.

Please cite this article as: Tavar E, Azimi F. Challenges ahead of Providing Humanitarian Aids to the Patients and Wounded in Armed Conflicts. Iran J Med Law 2017; 10(39): 145-170.