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What's new in law and case law across the world?*

Biannual update on national legislation implementing international humanitarian law and relevant case law January–June 2012

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2013

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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 94 , Issue 887: Business, violence and conflict , September 2012 , pp. 1145 - 1161
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This selection of national legislation and case law has been prepared by Audrey Purcell-O'Dwyer, Legal Attaché of the ICRC Advisory Service on International Humanitarian Law.

References

1 For further information on this initiative, please see the ICRC Report on the strengthening of legal protection for victims of armed conflict (2011), available at: http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/red-cross-crescent-movement/31st-international-conference/31-int-conference-strengthening-legal-protection-11-5-1-1-en.pdf (last visited September 2012).

2 For further information on the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) initiative of the ICRC, please visit our website: http://www.icrc.org/eng/what-we-do/safeguarding-health-care/about-health-care-danger-2012-02-06.htm (last visited September 2012).

3 To view the full list of treaties the ICRC works on, please visit our website: http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/misc/party_main_treaties.htm (last visited September 2012).

4 The complete list of States Party can be found at: http://www.icrc.org/ihl (last visited September 2012).

5 Palestine. On 21 June 1989, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs received a letter from the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations Office at Geneva informing the Swiss Federal Council ‘that the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, entrusted with the functions of the Government of the State of Palestine by decision of the Palestine National Council, decided, on 4 May 1989, to adhere to the Four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the two Protocols additional thereto’. On 13 September 1989, the Swiss Federal Council informed the State that it was not in a position to decide whether the letter constituted an instrument of accession, ‘due to the uncertainty within the international community as to the existence or non-existence of a State of Palestine’. On 31 October 2011, Palestine became a full member of UNESCO. On 22 March 2012, Palestine deposited with the UNESCO Director-General its instrument of accession to the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two Protocols.

6 For the complete text of the Law No. 1448 and the Regulatory Decrees, please see: http://www.leydevictimas.gov.co/documents/10179/19132/completo.pdf (last visited September 2012).

7 Ibid.

8 For more information, please visit: http://ww2.noticiasmvs.com/noticias/capital/aprueba-senado-ley-del-registro-nacional-de-datos-de-personas-extraviadas-340.html (last visited September 2012).

9 At the time of writing no such extension had happened.

10 For a summary of the case in English, see the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina's website: http://www.sudbih.gov.ba/?id=2514&jezik=e (last visited September 2012).

11 For more information, please visit: http://www.bim.ba/en/324/10/35241/ (last visited September 2012).

12 Available at: http://www.sudbih.gov.ba/index.php?id=2507&jezik=e (last visited September 2012).

13 For more information, please visit: http://www.poderjudicial.es/cgpj/es/Poder_Judicial/Tribunal_Supremo/Sala_de_prensa/Documentos_de_Interes/Tribunal_Supremo__Sentencia_del_caso__Manos_Limpias_y_Asociacion_Libertad_e_Identidad_vs_Baltasar_Garzon__por_prevaricacion_judicial__STS_101_2012 (last visited September 2012).

14 For more information, please visit: http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2012/02/27/01003-20120227ARTFIG00506-espagne-le-juge-garzon-est-acquitte.php (last visited September 2012).

15 See: http://www.poderjudicial.es/cgpj/es/Poder_Judicial/Tribunal_Supremo/Sala_de_prensa/Documentos_de_Interes/Tribunal_Supremo__Sentencia_del_caso__Manos_Limpias_y_Asociacion_Libertad_e_Identidad_vs_Baltasar_Garzon__por_prevaricacion_judicial__STS_101_2012 (last visited September 2012).

16 For more information, please visit: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/24/justice/california-iraq-trial/index.html (last visited September 2012).

17 For more information, please visit: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/23/us-marine-haditha-idUSTRE80M1U620120123 (last visited September 2012).

18 For more information, please visit: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/25/haditha-killings-frank-wuterich-iraq_n_1230889.html (last visited September 2012).