Commentary on the First Geneva Convention
The Updated Commentary on the First Geneva Convention – A New Tool for Generating Respect for International Humanitarian Law
... the First Geneva Convention is to ensure the respect and protection of wounded and sick members of the armed forces in times of armed ...was first set down in international treaty law in 1864 ...
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Conference on the 2016 ICRC Commentary on the First Geneva Convention: Public Panel Rapporteur Session
... the Geneva Convention had been written to combat specific acts within the Second World War, and the original Commentaries were written to address those ...
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The Updated Commentary on the First Geneva Convention--A New Tool for Generating Respect for International Humanitarian Law
... new Commentary indicates this and evaluates for these cases whether a rule has fallen into ...the First Convention which regulate the conditions under which military medical and religious personnel ...
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A Critique of the ICRC's Updated Commentary to the First Geneva Convention: Arming Medical Personnel and the Loss of Protected Status
... 2016 Commentary draws a grossly inappropriate analogy to Article 13 of Additional Protocol I (AP I), which states that the equipping of civilian medical personnel with “light individual weapons” would not be ...
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The Updated ICRC Commentary on the Second Geneva Convention: Demystifying the Law of Armed Conflict at Sea
... Second Convention regulates a variety of aspects pertaining to hos- pital ...1949. First, Article 34(2) which refers, as an example of an ‘act harmful to the enemy’ (which may lead to a loss of protection) ...
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Afghanistan and the Nature of Conflict
... Option 2: Determine that the Geneva Convention does apply to the conflict in Afghanistan, but that members of aI Qaeda as a group and the Taliban individually or as[r] ...
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Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons
... It is thus evident that States Parties to the 1925 Geneva Protocol and to the 1972 Bacteriological Convention are prohibited from developing, manufacturing, stockpiling, acquiring,[r] ...
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1929 GENEVA CONVENTION RELATIVE TO THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR (27 July 1929)
... Upon the outbreak of hostilities, each of the belligerent Powers, as well as the neutral Powers which have received belligerents, shall institute an official information bureau for pri[r] ...
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APPENDIX A GENEVA CONVENTION RELATIVE TO THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR OF AUGUST 12, 1949
... if it is a transit camp, likewise in case of sickness or transfer to hospital or to another camp, every prisoner of war shall be enabled to write direct to his family,[r] ...
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IX. GENEVA CONVENTION RELATIVE TO THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR, 27 JULY 1929.
... Prisoners of war who are victims of accidents in connection with work, except those voluntarily injured, shall enjoy the benefit o(the same provisions, as far as repatriation [r] ...
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The Iraqi Special Tribunal: A Human Rights Perspective
... 50 The Fourth Geneva Convention prescribed a range of procedural due process rights for the civilian population in occupied territories that presaged the evolution o[r] ...
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XVII. Japanese Atrocities
... Requested that names of Americans held in an internment camp in Java be provided in accordance with article 77, Geneva PTisoners of War Convention, that Swiss representat[r] ...
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The Long Empty Canyon: A Study of the Old/New Legal Problems of the Nile Basin
... Abstract: The Nile River Basin witnesses a long history of tension and negotiation among riparian states. There are two legal frameworks govern the Nile Basin. Firstly, the private legal framework reflected in legal ...
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Piracy - A Modern Perspective
... It is acknowledged that one of the main deterrents to redefining the definition of piracy under UNCLOS and the Geneva Convention of the High Seas to encompass acts of terrorism invo[r] ...
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The 1977 Protocol I and the United States
... Article 85 of the 1949 Third Geneva Convention, to which the United States is a party, as is practically every other member of the international community, specifically provide[r] ...
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A Human Rights Perspective to Global Battlefield Detention: Time to Reconsider Indefinite Detention
... Third Geneva Convention, including the use of a fixed distinctive sign and a respect for the laws and customs of war in the conduct of their ...operations. Convention Relative to the Treat- ment of ...
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VII. HAGUE CONVENTION (X) FOR THE ADAPTATION TO MARITIME WARFARE OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION, 18 OCTOBER 1907.
... Any war-ship belonging to a belligerent may demand that sick, wounded, or shipwrecked men on board military hospital-ships, hospital-ships belonging to relief socie[r] ...
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V. GENEVA CONVENTION FOR THE AMELIORATION OF THE CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED OF THE ARMIES IN THE FIELD, 6 JULY 1906.
... 1. To mutually return the sick and wounded left on the field of battle after an engagement. To send back to their own country the sick and wounded who have recovered, or w[r] ...
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IV. Convention Between the United States of America and Certain Powers For the Adaptation to Maritime Warfare of the Principles of the Geneva Convention of August 22, 1864.
... Zannini, His Envoy Extraordinary and Min- ister Plenipotentiary at The Hague; Com-.. mander Guido Pompilj, Deputy in the Italian.[r] ...
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CHAPTER III: THE 1958 GENEVA CONVENTION ON THE TERRITORIAL SEA AND THE CONTIGUOUS ZONE
... The coastal state shall in a zone having a maximu1n breadth of t'velve miles, measured from the applicable base- line, determined as provided in these rules, have [r] ...
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