Customary International Humanitarian Law: Volume 1, Rules by Jean-Marie Henckaerts, Louise Doswald-Beck, Carolin

By Jean-Marie Henckaerts, Louise Doswald-Beck, Carolin Alvermann, Knut Dörmann, Baptiste Rolle

In 1995, the foreign Committee of the pink go, in addition to a variety of well known specialists, embarked upon an important overseas examine into present country perform in humanitarian legislation so one can establish universal legislation during this zone. This ebook (and its better half, quantity 2: perform) is the results of that research. quantity 1 is a accomplished research of the established ideas of foreign humanitarian legislation acceptable in foreign and non-international armed conflicts.

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Customary International Humanitarian Law: Volume 1, Rules

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Libyan Arab Jamahiriya), Judgement, 24 February 1982, ICJ Reports 1982, p. 74, § 100 and Continental Shelf case, supra note 11, p. 33, § 34. xliv Introduction the rule. In order to deduce the existence of customary rules, the Court deems it sufficient that the conduct of States should, in general, be consistent with such rules, and that instances of State conduct inconsistent with a given rule should generally have been treated as breaches of that rule, not as indications of the recognition of a new rule.

The Statutes were adopted by the States party to the Geneva Conventions and the members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. This mandate was first given to the ICRC by Article 7 of the Statutes of the International Red Cross adopted by the 13th International Conference of the Red Cross, The Hague, 23–27 October 1928, according to which “all complaints in regard to alleged violations of the international Conventions, and in general, all questions calling for examination by a specifically neutral body, shall remain the exclusive province of the International Committee of the Red Cross”.

100, § 190. The Court found further confirmation of the validity as customary international law of the principle of the prohibition of the use of force expressed in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter in the fact that it was “frequently referred to in statements by State representatives as being not only a principle of customary international law but also a fundamental or cardinal principle of such law”. ˇ ıkovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary v. Slovakia), Judgement, ICJ, Case concerning the Gabc´ 25 September 1997, ICJ Reports 1997, pp.

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