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The ICRC and internally displaced persons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2010

Extract

According to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the 1977 Protocols additional thereto, the mandate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) applies in both international and noninternational armed conflict situations. The States party to the Geneva Conventions have also recognized the ICRC's right to propose activities in behalf of victims of internal strife, by adopting the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (Article 5, para. 2d, of the Statutes).

Type
Refugees and Displaced Persons
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1995

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References

1 See Judgment by the International Court of Justice in the case concerning military and paramilitary activities in and against Nicaragua, Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders, p. 104, para. 218.

2 See the Declaration of Minimum Humanitarian Standards” published in the International Review of the Red Cross, No. 282, May-June 1991, p. 330 ffGoogle Scholar. This Declaration was circulated within the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities on 12 August 1991as Document No. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1991/55, and in 1994 was submitted by resolution to the Commission with a view to its finalization and possible adoption.

3 See, on this point, Plattner, Denise, “The protection of displaced persons in non-international armed conflicts”, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 291, Nov.-Dec.1992, pp. 567580, pp. 570–571.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 Ibid., p. 571.

5 Ibid., p. 573.

6 Ibid., p. 574.