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Human Rights, the Law of Armed Conflict, and Reprisals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

F. Kalshoven
F. Kalshoven*
Affiliation:
Reader in International Law in the University of Leyden
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Abstract

The Henry Dunant Institute is inaugurating its collection of scientific works with an important book by F. Kalshoven which is reviewed in this issue. We are pleased to publish below a paper which this writer delivered at the International Congress on Humanitarian Law in San Remo last September. (Ed.)

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 11 , Issue 121 , April 1971 , pp. 183 - 192
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1971

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