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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Adapting humanitarian law for today's warring world
Delegates and lawyers from around the world are in Geneva for the next two days to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, and to discuss how international humanitarian law should be reformed to meet the realities of war today. The Geneva Conventions have been universally ratified and stipulate states’ roles and responsibilities in protecting civilians during armed conflicts. But today, those conflicts often involve non-state fighters, new weapons, new environments and new parameters. So international humanitarian law must adapt. But is it really the rules that need changing? Lucas Chambers reports.
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Important story, and good to see that the understandable confusion between humanitarian law and human rights law has been straightened out since WRS went to air this morning. It may be helpful to see the way the ICRC draws the important, but increasingly blurred, distinction between these two branches of international law: see http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/sectionihlandhumanrights Thanks for the opportunity to comment.
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