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Abstract
Modern mass media feed, or overfeed us with reports on the horrors of armed conflicts. Little is heard, however, about restraints observed in accordance with valid rules. Little is also heard about the efforts made in recent years to update the rules applicable in armed conflicts. Even international lawyers know much more about the proposals to update the law of the sea than about the draft rules worked out by the ICRC for international and noninternational armed conflicts. There is also ignorance about the conferences of government experts which have discussed the ICRC drafts in Geneva in 1971 and 1972 and the world conference proposed by the Swiss Government to convene early in 1974.
- Type
- Human Rights and Armed Conflict: Conflicting Views
- Information
- American Journal of International Law , Volume 67 , Issue 5: Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting Washington, D.C. April 12-14, 1973 , November 1973 , pp. 149 - 157
- Copyright
- Copyright © American Society of International Law 1973
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Legal Adviser, Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden.
References
1 Figures through Sept. 1971 in Congressional Record of May 3, 1972.
2 Spaight, J. W., Air Power and War Rights 245-47 (3rd ed. 1947)Google Scholar.
3 Art. 45(3) in ICRC I Basic Texts (1972).
4 Id., Art. 50(2).
5 See Doc. CE/COM III/PC 106 in ICRC II Report on the Work of the Conference (1972).
6 CE/COM III/PC 110.
7 Commentary on Art. 68; cf. the example under Art. 65.
8 Art. 48(1).
9 CE/COM III/PC 64.
10 CE/COM III/PC 93. Italics supplied.
11 Adler, G. J., Targets in War: Legal Considerations, 8 Houston L. R. 39 (1970)Google Scholar.
12 Written by R. F. Futrell, USAF Historical Division (1961).