INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW: SHOULD IT BE REAFFIRMED, CLARIFIED OR DEVELOPED?

Israel Yearbook on Human Rights

Volumn 34, Issue , 2004, Pages 35-58

  Lavoyer, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a International Committee of the Red Cross   (Switzerland)

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EID: 85065744815     PISSN: 03335925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/9789047414070_004     Document Type: Chapter

References (20)

1. Geneva Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, 1949, 75 UN. T.S. 31;
2. Geneva Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, 1949, 75 U.N. T.S. 85;
3. Geneva Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 1949, 75 UN. T.S. 135;
4. Geneva Convention (IV) Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, 1949, 75 U.N. T.S. 287.
5. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 1977, 1125 UN. T.S. 3;
6. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II), 1977, 1125 U.N. T.S. 609.
7. The meeting took place in Ashland, Massachusetts, from 27 to 29 Jan. 2003. Background papers and a summary report of the meeting can be found at: www.ihlresearch.org.
8. Number of States Parties to the major IHL treaties (as of 26 Apr. 2004): 1949 Geneva Conventions - 191 States;
9. Address of the ICRC's site on the internet: www.icrc.org.
10. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons, and on Their Destruction, 1972, 1015 V.N.T.S.1419.
11. See JCRC Summary Report of the informal meeting of government and independent experts, Montreux (Switzerland), 23-24 Sept. 2002.
12. Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, 1925, The Laws of Armed Conflicts 115 (D. Schindler & J. Toman eds., 3rd ed., 1988).
13. Second Protocol to the Hague Convention on Cultural Property, 1999, 38 I.L.M. 769 (1999).
14. These documents can be found on the ICRC's website at: www.icrc.org.
15. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and the Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, 1993, 32I.L.M. 800 (1993).
16. Protocol IV on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995, Annexed to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, 35 J.L.M 1218 (1996).
17. Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti- Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, 1997, 36 I.L.M. 1507 (1997).
18. See ICRC Report of the "Expert Meeting on Explosive Remnants of War", Nyon (Switzerland), 18-19 Sept. 2000;
19. ICRC report "Cluster Bombs and Landmines in Kosovo", Geneva, 2001.
20. For concrete proposals, see "International Conference of Governmental and NonGovernmental Experts, Geneva, 19-21 February 2003", Conference Acts. This international conference was organized by the ICRC.