Professional Standards for Protection Work (Abridged Fourth Edition, 2024)

The Professional Standards for Protection Work (fourth edition; also available in an abridged version) constitute a set of minimum but essential standards aimed at ensuring that protection work carried out by human rights and humanitarian actors in armed conflict and other situations of violence is safe and effective. The standards reflect shared thinking and common agreement among humanitarian and human rights practitioners and were adopted following an ICRC-led consultation process with UN agencies, NGOs, and components of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.