"International Humanitarian Law and Other Legal Regimes: Interplay in Situations of Violence" Address by Jakob Kellenberger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross: International Institute of Humanitarian Law in co-operation with the...
In: Revue internationale de la Croix-Rouge: débat humanitaire, droit, politiques, action = International Review of the Red Cross, Band 85, Heft 851, S. 645-653
ISSN: 1607-5889
Thirty-five years ago the International Conference on Human Rights held
at Teheran adopted a resolution entitled "Human Rights in Armed Conflicts".
In political terms, the 1968 resolution signalled the international
community's recognition that armed conflicts "continued to plague humanity"
despite the United Nations Charter's prohibition on threats or use offeree
in international relations. By dealing with human rights in armed conflict,
the resolution also put an end to more than two decades of United Nations
reluctance to address issues of ius in bello for
fear of undermining the Charter's provisions on ius ad
belium. In legal terms, the adoption of the Teheran
resolution opened the way for a fresh look at the relationship between
international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the
protection of persons affected by war.