Les projets genevois de révision de la Convention de Genève du 22 août 1864 (1868–1898)

In: Revue internationale de la Croix-Rouge: débat humanitaire, droit, politiques, action = International Review of the Red Cross, Band 81, Heft 834, S. 365-386

Abstract

Abstract
Only three years after the 1864 Convention — historically the "first"
Geneva Convention — was adopted, proposals were made to amend the text by
introducing provisions on the National Red Cross Societies. However, the
result of this procedure — the 1868 Additional Articles — was never ratified
by any of the parties to the original treaty. In the years that followed, no
less than five proposals were circulated by the ICRC, none of which led to
new treaty provisions until, in 1906, the States adopted a new Convention to
replace the original 1864 treaty. Although the proposed texts originated in
Geneva — drafted by General Dufour and Gustave Moynier — the ICRC remained
sceptical about the wisdom of amending the original Convention. The fear of
losing what had been gained in 1864 was stronger than the expectation that
new progress would be made in protecting war victims. In an annex to this
article the various drafts are published for the first time.