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Adoption of the 1977 Additional Protocols

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Igor P. Blishchenko
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The adoption of the 1977 Protocols additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions for the protection of war victims was an event of great historic significance. In 1977 the States were convinced that developments in weaponry had made it necessary to adopt new rules of conduct in armed conflicts: methods of using conventional weapons were being perfected and the resulting casualty rates were approaching those of weapons mass destruction, affecting everyone without exception and also damaging the environment, and thus threatening the survival of entire nations. This fact persuaded the States to agree upon new rules of conduct in armed conflict.

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20th anniversary of the 1977 Additional Protocols
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 37 , Special Issue 320: 20th anniversary of the 1977 Additional Protocols , October 1997 , pp. 511 - 514
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1997

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References

1 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, of 10 October 1980.

2 Protocol on prohibitions or restrictions on the use of mines, booby-traps and other devices (Protocol II).

3 Protocol on blinding laser weapons (Protocol IV), adopted on 13 October 1995.