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Humanitarian aid to the victims of internal conflicts. Meeting of a Commission of Experts in Geneva

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Extract

Article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions constitutes a striking affirmation of humanitarian protection.

Out of respect which is due to the individual, the States parties to these Conventions have in fact accepted to limit, to a certain extent, their liberty of action as regards their own nationals in the case of internal conflicts. International law has thus managed to penetrate a field hitherto exclusively reserved to internal law and the International Committee of the Red Cross has been especially mentioned as being capable, under certain conditions, of acting as guarantor for such protection.

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International Committee of the Red Cross
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1963

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References

page 80 note 1 Adjourned by reason of events.

page 81 note 1 Prevented from coming to Geneva, Colonel Draper and Professor Carlo Schmid duly received the report to which they gave their approval.

page 83 note 1 Report, Commission of Experts, 1955, p. 6.

page 85 note 1 p. 7.

page 85 note 2 p. 7.

page 86 note 1 Report, Commission of Experts, 1953, p. 5.

page 87 note 1 Report, Commission of Experts, 1955, pp. 5–6.

page 88 note 1 p. 7.

page 90 note 1 Report, Commission of Experts, 1955, p. 8.