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From the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 26 August 1789 to present-day international humanitarian law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Maurice Aubert
Maurice Aubert*
Affiliation:
Vice-President International Committee of the Red Cross
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Extract

At first glance, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen has no connection with the 1864 Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field. The former laid the basis for human rights as we know them today and the latter marked the advent of international humanitarian law.

Type
1789-1989
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 29 , Issue 271 , August 1989 , pp. 349 - 359
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1989

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