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National Measures to Implement International Humanitarian Law: Steps taken by the ICRC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

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Like any body of law, international humanitarian law (IHL) was intended not as a series of abstract precepts, but as a set of specific rules governing real situations. This is reaffirmed in Article 1 common to the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949, which lays down the obligation for the High Contracting Parties to respect and ensure respect for these treaties in all circumstances.

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National Measures to Implement International Humanitarian Law
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 31 , Issue 281 , April 1991 , pp. 134 - 139
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1991

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1 See reports entitled “Respect of the Geneva Conventions–Measures taken to repress violations” (Vols. 1 and 2) submitted by the ICRC to the 20th International Conference of the Red Cross (Vienna, 1965) and to the 21st International Conference of the Red Cross (Istanbul, 1969), respectively. On other occasions, the ICRC has also gathered information on the measures taken by the States to protect the Red Cross and Red Crescent emblem and name.

* (Editor's note) In addition, the Republic of Korea and the Botswana Red Cross Society answered the ICRC's letter of 28 April 1988 on 6 and 7 September 1988, respectively. Therefore the ICRC had in fact received, as at 30 June 1989, replies from 27 States, 13 of which were States party also to the Additional Protocols, and from 16 National Societies.