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Ms. Helen Durham

Ms. Helen Durham
Director of International Law and Policy
at the International Committee of
the Red Cross

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Law of Armed Conflict
Relevance and Usefulness of International Humanitarian Law: The Laws of War Today
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Law of Armed Conflict
Relevance and Usefulness of International Humanitarian Law: The Laws of War Today
A. Legal Instruments

Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice, San Francisco, 26 June 1945.

Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 31.

Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 85.

Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 135.

Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 287.

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), Geneva, 8 June 1977, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 1125, p. 3.

Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of non-international armed conflicts (Protocol II), Geneva, 8 June 1977, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 1125, p. 609.

Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former YugoslaviaReport of the Secretary-General pursuant to paragraph 2 of Security Council resolution 808 (1993) (S/25704), 3 May 1993.

Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for RwandaSecurity Council resolution 955 (1994) of 8 November 1994.

Additional Protocol to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (Protocol IV, entitled Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons), Vienna, 13 October 1995, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 1380, p. 370.

Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, Oslo, 18 September 1997, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2056, p. 211.

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Rome, 17 July 1998, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 2187, p. 3.

Convention on Cluster Munitions, Dublin, 30 May 2008, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 2688, p. 35.

Arms Trade Treaty, New York, 2 April 2013, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 3013, p. 269.

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, New York, 7 July 2017.

B. Documents

International Committee of the Red Cross, The Roots of Restraint in War, ICRC, 2018.

J-M. Henckaerts and L. Doswald-Beck, Customary International Humanitarian Law, vol. I, International Committee of the Red Cross, Cambridge University Press, Geneva, 2005.