Respect for Human Rights in Armed Conflicts

A/RES/2444(XXIII)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1969.

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13 documents · 1969–1978

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1978	A/RES/32/44	Respect for human rights in armed conflicts	1,486	–
1977	A/RES/31/19	Respect for human rights in armed conflicts	474	–
1976	A/RES/3500(XXX)	Respect for human rights in armed conflicts	588	–
1975	A/RES/3319(XXIX)	Respect for human rights in armed conflicts	468	–
1974	A/RES/3102(XXVIII)	Respect for human rights in armed conflicts	883	–

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Human Rights in Armed Conflicts

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7 operative paragraphs

Affirms resolution XXVIII of the XX.th International Conference of the Red Cross held at Vienna in 1965, which laid down, inter alia, the following principles for observance by all governmental and other authorities responsible for action in armed conflicts :

That the right of the parties to a conflict to adopt means of injuring the enemy is not unlimited;

( b) That it is prohibited to launch attacks against the civilian populations as such ;

( c) That distinction must be made at all times between persons taking part in the hostilities and members of the civilian population to the effect that the latter be spared as much as possible ;

Invites the Secretary-General, in consultation with the International Committee of the Red Cross and other appropriate international organizations, to study:

Steps which could be taken to secure the better application of existing humanitarian international conventions and rules in all armed conflicts;

H United Nations, Treat31 Series, vol. 75 (1950), Nos. 970-973.

BG See Final Act of the International Confermce °" H..,. Rights (United Nations publication, Sales No.: E.68.XIV.2), p. 18.

( b) The need for additional humanitarian international conventions or for other appropriate legal instruments to ensure the better protection of civilians, prisoners and combatants in all armed conflicts and the prohibition and limitation of the use of certain methods and means of warfare ;

Requests the Secretary-General to take all other necessary steps to give effect to the provisions of the present resolution and to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-fourth session on the steps he has taken;

Further requests ::\Iember States to extend all possible assistance to the Secretary-General in the preparation of the study requested in paragraph 2 above;

Calls upon all States which have not yet done so to become parties to the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907,30 the Geneva Protocal of 192537 and the Geneva Conventions of 1949.38 1748th plenary 111ecting,

19 December 1968.

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