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International Committee for the Red Cross: Status of Four Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols I and II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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The four 1949 Geneva Conventions (for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded and sick in armed forces in the field, for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded, sick, and shipwrecked members of armed forces at sea, relative to the treatment of prisoners of war, and relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war) can be found at 6 UST 3114, 3217, 3316, 3516 and 75 UNTS 31, 85, 135, 287. The two 1977 Protocols (I – relating to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts and II – relating to the protection of victims of noninternational armed conflicts) appear respectively at 16 I.L.M. 1391 and 1442 (1977).

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International Legal Materials , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , March 1987 , pp. 553 - 560
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1987

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c Entry into force 23 September, Korea havi« invoked arts. 62/61/141/157 (iBaediate effect).

* [Reproduced from excerpts from the International Committee of the Red Cross INFO/DIF/l/b/Rev. 14 of January 1, 1987. The message of the U.S. President transmitting Protocol II to the U.S. Senate for its advice and consent to ratification appears below at I.L.M. page 561.]

d With the exception of the Fourth Convention to which Sri Lanka acceded on 23.02.1959 (Sri Lanka sipied only the First, Second and Third Conventions.

e Entry into force 21 October 1950.

f Trinidad and Tobago's accession to First Convention was on 17.03.1963 and not on 24.09.1963 as for the other three Conventions.