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The Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Jean de Preux
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The world now has a population of 5 billion, as against 1 billion in 1863 when the Red Cross was founded and the codification of the law of armed conflicts was initiated. For almost a century, the Red Cross concerned itself successively with soldiers wounded in action, victims of naval warfare, prisoners of war and civilians abandoned in wartime to the arbitrariness of foreign rule.

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20th anniversary of the 1977 Additional Protocols
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 37 , Special Issue 320: 20th anniversary of the 1977 Additional Protocols , October 1997 , pp. 473 - 481
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1997

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Footnotes

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Reprint. IRRC, No. 258, May–June 1987, pp. 250–258.