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The principles of international humanitarian law (II)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2010

Jean Pictet*
Affiliation:
Director at the International Committee of the Red Cross In charge of courses at the University of Geneva

Extract

Alongside the rules which constitute the enacting clauses of the international Conventions and which, in precise terms, set forth the contractual obligations of States, there exist principles from which these rules derive. “Certain ideas formulated with deliberate imprecision occupy a privileged position in treaties which describe them as being creative elements of law”.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1966

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Footnotes

1

See International Review, September 1966.

References

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page 518 note 1 See heading 4 below.

page 518 note 2 Frédéric Siordet, Inter arma caritas, ICRC, Geneva, 1947.

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