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The principles of international humanitarian law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Jean Pictet
Jean Pictet*
Affiliation:
Director at the International Committee of the Red Cross In charge of courses at the University of Geneva
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For some years it has been customary to call “humanitarian law” that considerable portion of international law which owes its inspiration to a feeling for humanity and which is centred on the protection of the individual. This expression of humanitarian law appears to combine two ideas of a different character, the one legal and the other moral. Now, the provisions which are the subject under study are, as will be seen later, precisely a transposition in international law of considerations of a moral order, and more especially humanitarian. This then would seem to be a satisfactory designation.

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 6 , Issue 66 , September 1966 , pp. 455 - 469
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1966

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References

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