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New rules for victims of armed conflicts : commentary on the two 1977 protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 / by Michael Bothe, Karl Josef Partsch, Waldemar A. Solf ; with the collaboration of Martin Eaton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bothe, Michael.
- Series:
- Nijhoff Classics in International Law 1.
- Nijhoff classics in international law, 2214-2436 ; volume 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.
- War victims.
- Geneva Conventions (1949 August 12)--Protocols, etc. (1977 June 8 : Protocol I).
- Geneva Conventions.
- Geneva Conventions (1949 August 12)--Protocols, etc. (1977 June 8 : Protocol II).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (875 p.)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- It is a major cultural achievement that violence in armed conflicts is restrained by international legal rules. As the nature of these conflicts changes, these rules have to be adapted accordingly in order to provide effective protection for the victims. The adoption of the two Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions in 1977 was a major step in this development. The authors, who were involved in the negotiation of these two treaties, give a first hand account of the meaning of the text and the intent of the negotiators. The book is, thus, an important tool to better understand and implement these treaties which have proved their salutary importance in the all too many conflicts during the last decades. The current volume is a revised reprint, with new introductory materials, of the original text published in 1982.
- Contents:
- part I. General provisions
- part II. Wounded, sick and shipwrecked ; section I. General protection ; section II. Medical transportation ; section III. Missing and dead persons
- part III. Methods and means of warfare combatant and prisoner-of-war status ; section I. Methods and means of warfare ; section II. Combatant and prisoner-of-war status
- part IV. Civilian population ; section I. General protection against effects of hostilities ; section II. Reflief in favour of the civilian population ; section III. Treatment of persons in the power of a party to the conflict
- part V. Execution of the conventions and of this protocol ; section I. General provisions ; section II. Repression of breaches of the conventions and of this protocol
- part VI. Final provisions
- part I. Scope of this protocol
- part II. Humane treatment
- part III. Wounded, sick and shipwrecked
- part IV. Civilian population
- part V. Final provisions.
- Notes:
- "Reprint revised by Michael Bothe."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-25471-4
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004254718 DOI
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