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Issues in the protection of the wounded and sick

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Michael Bothe  and
Karin Janssen
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The Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions, adopted in 1977, broaden the protection afforded by international law to wounded, sick and shipwrecked members of armed forces and to medical personnel, medical units and military medical transports in certain circumstances. Their main purpose, however, is to extend to civilians, civilian medical personnel etc. the protection which hitherto was enjoyed only by military personnel. Thanks to the Additional Protocols, military personnel and civilians today enjoy equal protection.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 26 , Issue 253 , August 1986 , pp. 189 - 199
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1986

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Prof. Dr. Michael Bothe, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main. Karin Janssen, research assistant