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Implementation of international humanitarian law - National measures: Information received by the International Committee of the Red Cross on implementation measures taken by the States at the national level

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

María Teresa Dutli
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The importance of adopting national measures to implement international humanitarian law has been stressed on many occasions. It was repeated in the Final Declaration of the International Conference for the Protection of War Victims (Geneva, 30 August–1 September 1993), which reaffirmed the obligation laid down in Article 1 common to the four Geneva Conventions to respect and ensure respect for international humanitarian law in order to protect the victims of war. The Declaration urged all States to make every effort to “adopt and implement, at the national level, all appropriate regulations, laws and measures to ensure respect for international humanitarian law applicable in the event of armed conflict and to punish violations thereof”. The Conference thus reasserted the need to bring about more effective compliance with that law.

Type
Follow-up to the International Conference for the Protection of War Victims
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 34 , Issue 302 , October 1994 , pp. 464 - 469
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1994

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References

1 International Conference for the Protection of War Victims (Geneva, 30 August–1 September 1993), Final Declaration; Report on the Protection of War Victims, drawn up by the International Committee of the Red Cross and published in the International Review of the Red Cross, 09–10 1993 (No. 296), p. 379 Google Scholar

2 These steps were a follow-up to Resolution V of the 25th International Conference of the Red Cross (Geneva, 1986). The resolution, entitled National measures to implement international humanitarian law, reminded the States of their obligation to adopt or supplement the relevant national legislation. It also called on governments and National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to give the ICRC their full support and the information it required to monitor progress in this area.

3 The action taken by the ICRC in pursuance of Resolution V of the 25th International Conference of the Red Cross was published under the title National measures to implement international humanitarian law — Resolution V of the 25th International Conference of the Red Cross (Geneva, 1986)—Written representations by the International Committee of the Red Cross, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 10 1991.Google Scholar

4 This compilation was annexed to the document entitled Implementation of international humanitarian law—National measures, which was drawn up by the ICRC for the 26th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, to have been held in Budapest in November–December 1991 (Doc. C.I/4.1/1, Geneva, 1991).Google Scholar