Geneva Conventions Materials

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International Committee of the Red Cross Publications

International Review of the Red Cross (1961-1998)

The Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949

Final Record of the Diplomatic Conference of Geneva of 1949

Conference of Government Experts, 1971

On the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons     Weapons that may Cause Unnecessary Suffering or have Indiscriminate Effects, 1973     Conference of Government Experts on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons, 1974     Conference of Government Experts on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons, 1976

Commentary on the Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977

The SIrUS Project: Towards a determination of which weapons cause "superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering" 1997

Constraints on the Waging of War, An Introduction to International Humanitarian Law, 2001 (PDF) Restricciones en la conducción de la guerra, Introducción al derecho internacional humanitario, 2005 [Spanish translation of Constraints on the Waging of War . . . ]

How Does Law Protect in War? - Volume I and II,  2006

U.S. Government Documents

Message from the President of the United States, 1951 (PDF) (Transmitting Copies of the Geneva Conventions for the Protection of War Victims; U.S. Congress 82-1, Senate Executives D, E, F, and G) (OCLC Number 367653652)

Senate Executive Report No. 9, 1955 (PDF) (U.S. Congress 84-1, Report . . . on Executives D, E, F, and G ) (OCLC Number 317714935)

Message from the President of the United States, 1987 (PDF) (Transmitting the Protocol II Additional to the Geneva Conventions . . .Relating to the Protection of Victims of Noninternational Armed Conflicts; Treaty Doc.: 100-2; submitted to Senate January 29, 1987) (OCLC Number 317713145)