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Human Rights and Protocol II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Sylvie Junod
Sylvie Junod*
Affiliation:
Legal Adviser at the ICRC
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Human rights, particularly civil and political, have influenced the latest developments in international humanitarian law, especially 1977 Protocol II relating to non-international armed conflicts. At the Teheran Conference in 1968 the United Nations began to reconcile these two branches of international law; it was at this Conference that international humanitarian law was first called “human rights in periods of armed conflict”. This rapprochement was helped further by the adoption in the 1977 Protocols of some basic rules identical to those in the Human Rights Conventions; it helps strengthen the protection of human beings in situations of armed conflict.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 23 , Issue 236 , October 1983 , pp. 246 - 254
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1983

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Footnotes

1

Lecture given at the Round Table of the International Institute for Humanitarian Law in 1981. The opinions expressed are those of the author.

References

2 See Acts of the 1949 Conference, Vol. II A, pp. 761–766, Vol. III (Appendices), pp. 96–100.

3 “The ICRC and human rights” in International Review of the Red Cross, January-February 1979.

4 Report A 7720, 1969.

5 Resolution XIII, 12 May 1968.

6 Article 75 of Protocol I.

7 Art. 4, par. 1 of the Covenant on civil and political rights.