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The need to restore the Laws and Customs relating to armed Conflicts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1969

Jean Pictet
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Socrates recommended that one should begin a dissertation by denning one's terms.

For some time now, the name, “humanitarian law”, has been used to describe the large body of public international law derived from humanitarian sentiments and centred upon the protection of the individual.

The term has both a broad and a narrow sense. In the broad sense, international humanitarian law consists of those rules of international conventional and customary law which ensure respect for the individual and promote his development to the fullest possible extent compatible with law and order and, in time of war, with military necessities.

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 9 , Issue 102 , September 1969 , pp. 459 - 483
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1969

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Footnotes

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This article appeared in The Review of the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, March 1969, No. 1.

References

page 462 note 1 Wright, Quincy: A Study of War, 1942.Google Scholar

page 463 note 1 Draper, G. I. A. D.: The Conception of the Just War.Google Scholar

page 463 note 2 Coursier, Henri: Etudes sur la formation du droit humanitaire, Geneva, 1952.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 465 note 1 The author here is indebted to the work of Boissier, Pierre: Histoire du Comité International de la Croix-Rouge, Paris, 1963.Google Scholar

page 470 note 1 See annex to this article.

page 471 note 1 Editor's Note: see Press Release of the International Commission of Jurists on “Human Rights in Armed Conflicts: Vietnam” of 7th 03 1968.Google Scholar

page 472 note 1 The Resolution of 19th December 1968 was adopted unanimously by the General Assembly. This embodies the Teheran Resolution and restates the broad principles set forth by the XXth International Conference of the Red Cross at Vienna in 1965.

page 472 note 2 See Siotis, Jean: Le droit de la guerre et les conflits armés d'un caractère noninternational, 1958.Google Scholar

page 476 note 1 In this connection, it would be well to refer, in particular, to the Nuremberg Principles formulated in 1950 by the International Law Commission of the United Nations.