Status of Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Relating to the Protection of Victims of Armed Conflicts

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 152 Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts, published in 2003.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2004

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2004	A/59/321	Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/57/14

What subjects does this mandate have?

14 subjects

Advisory Services Armed Conflicts Children in Armed Conflicts Cultural Property Protection Declarations Human Rights in Armed Conflicts Information Dissemination Information Exchange International Humanitarian Law International Law Programmes of Action Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties War Victims

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12 operative paragraphs

Appreciates the virtually universal acceptance of the Geneva Conventions of 1949,3 and notes the trend towards a similarly wide acceptance of the two additional Protocols of 1977;4

Appeals to all States parties to the Geneva Conventions that have not yet done so to consider becoming parties to the additional Protocols at the earliest possible date;

Calls upon all States that are already parties to Protocol I,2 or those States not parties, on becoming parties to Protocol I, to make the declaration provided for under article 90 of that Protocol;

Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to consider becoming parties to the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict6 and the two Protocols thereto, and to other relevant treaties on international humanitarian law relating to the protection of victims of armed conflict;

Calls upon all States parties to the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions to ensure their wide dissemination and full implementation;

Notes with appreciation the Plan of Action adopted by the Twenty-seventh International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, in particular the reiteration of the importance of universal adherence to treaties on humanitarian law and their effective implementation at the national level, and welcomes the efforts made by many States towards the fulfilment of their pledges relating to international humanitarian law made at that Conference;

Affirms the necessity of making the implementation of international humanitarian law more effective;

Welcomes the advisory service activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross in supporting efforts made by Member States to take legislative and administrative action to implement international humanitarian law and in promoting the exchange of information on those efforts between Governments;

Welcomes also the increasing numbers of national commissions or committees for the implementation of international humanitarian law and for promoting the incorporation of treaties on international humanitarian law into national law and disseminating the rules of international humanitarian law;

Welcomes further the entry into force on 12 February 2002 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict,⁹ and calls upon all States to consider becoming parties to that Protocol;

⁹Resolution 54/263, annex I.

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session a report on the status of the additional Protocols relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts, as well as on measures taken to strengthen the existing body of international humanitarian law, inter alia, with respect to its dissemination and full implementation at the national level, based on information received from Member States and the International Committee of the Red Cross;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-ninth session the item entitled “Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts”.

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