Canada
Practice Relating to Rule 9. Definition of Civilian Objects
Canada’s LOAC Manual (1999) states: “Under the law of armed conflict, a ‘civilian object’ is any object which is not a ‘military objective’.”
Canada’s LOAC Manual (2001) states in its chapter on targeting: “Under the LOAC, a ‘civilian object’ is any object, which is not a ‘military objective’.”
In 2013, in a statement before the UN Security Council during an open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, the minister counsellor of the Permanent Mission of Canada stated: “We … recall that media equipment and installations constitute civilian objects within international law as affirmed by UN Security Council Resolution 1738 (2006).”