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Commission I: War victims and respect for international humanitarian law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Extract

Commission I, which was chaired by H.E. Ambassador Hisashi Owada, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations in New York, had two main items on its agenda: discussion of the follow-up to the 1993 International Conference for the Protection of War Victims held in Geneva and action to be taken in that regard by the 26th International Conference, and examination of a number of humanitarian issues relating to the protection of the civilian population in times of armed conflict. The Commission also took note of the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea.

Type
Humanitarian Challenges on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1996

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References

1 See the Final Declaration of the International Conference for the Protection of War Victims, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 296, 0910 1993, pp. 377381 Google Scholar, and infra, pp. 79–82.

2 See Recommendations of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts for the Protection of War Victims, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 304, 0202 1995, pp. 3338 Google Scholar, and infra, pp. 83–88. See also Report 95/C.I/2/1 (Geneva 1995), and Document 95/C.I/2/3 issued by the Swiss authorities (Geneva 1995). The ICRC stated its position on the recommendations in a report entitled “International humanitarian law: from law to action”, Document 95/C.I/2/2 (Geneva 1995).

3 Protection of the civilian population in periods of armed conflict, Document 95/C.I/3/1 (Geneva 1995)

4 See Report 95/C.I/4/1 and International Review of the Red Cross, No. 309, 1112 1995, pp. 595637.Google Scholar