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Non-discrimination and armed conflict

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2010

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Croix-Rouge et Croissant-Rouge/Red Cross and Red Crescent
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2001

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References

1 Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, of 12 August 1949; Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, of 12 August 1949; Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, of 12 August 1949; Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949.

2 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), of 8 June 1977.

3 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II), of 8 June 1977.

4 Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, of 22 August 1864.

5 Protocol I, Art. 85, para. 4(c).

6 Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Merits, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1986, para 218.

7 Protocol II, Part II, Art. 4.

8 Geneva Conventions, Arts 49 f., 50 f., 129 f. and 146 f., respectively.

9 Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (October 1986), preambular para. “Impartiality”.

10 Ibid., “Neutrality”.