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International Review of the Red Cross, 2004, No. 856 – humanitarian law, action and policy

This issue of the Review deals with a wide array of topics related to humanitarian law, action and policy. The edition addresses the phenomenon of the increasing privatization of defense and security tasks, the relationship between the law of occupation and Security Council Resolution 1483 regarding Iraq as well as the «Early Warning Procedures» employed by the Israel Defense Forces and the relationship between human rights law protection and international humanitarian law.

Issue No. 856 - 2004

Theme: humanitarian law, action and policy

Editorial - IRRC December 2004 No 856
Existentialism in Iraq: Security Council Resolution 1483 and the law of occupation
Marten Zwanenburg
Neighbours as human shields? The Israel Defense Forces’ "Early Warning Procedure" and international humanitarian law
Roland Otto
On the relationship between human rights law protection and international humanitarian law
Hans-Joachim Heintze
A new protocol on explosive remnants of war: The history and negotiation of Protocol V to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
Louis Maresca
Legality of amnesties in international humanitarian law – The Lomé Amnesty Decision of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
Simon M. Meisenberg
Privatization, Outsourcing and Public-private Partnerships: Charity.com or business.org?
Gilles Carbonnier
De l’assistance humanitaire: la résolution sur l’assistance humanitaire adoptée par l’Institut de droit international à sa session de Bruges en 2003
Robert Kolb
Humanitarian Assistance in Armed Conflict
Conference of the Luxemburg Group - 24-25 May 2004 – Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
L’action du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge pendant la guerre d’Algérie (1954-1962)
Françoise Perret
The International Committee of the Red Cross reduces the protective embargo on access to its archives
Jean-François Pitteloud
Rules governing access to the archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross – (Adopted by the ICRC Assembly on 17 January 1996 and revised by the ICRC Assembly on 29 April 2004)
Future themes. Aim and scope of the Review
Books and articles
Recent acquisitions of the Library & Research Service, ICRC

International Review of the Red Cross, 2004, No. 856 – humanitarian law, action and policy

Issue No. 856 - 2004

Theme: humanitarian law, action and policy

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