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"UN: Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts, 1977" [2005] ELECD 313; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 90

Section Title: UN: Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts, 1977

Number of pages: 5

Extract:

90. UN: Protocol Additional to the Geneva
Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating
to the Protection of Victims of International
Armed Conflicts, 1977

Commentary: The First Additional Protocol (1125 UNTS 3, entry into force 1978)
specifies further provisions applicable to international armed conflicts. Note that for
the purposes of Protocol 1, `wounded', `sick', `shipwrecked' and `medical' or `reli-
gious' personnel mean persons `whether military or civilian' and medical `units' or
`transports' means establishments or means `whether military or civilian' (Article 8).
Thus the protections applicable to these categories (not reproduced below) also
apply to civilian organisations. Annex 1, Chapter 6, Article 16 identifies the interna-
tional special sign for works and installations containing dangerous forces (a group of
three bright orange circles of equal size placed on the same axis with the distance
between each circle being one radius).



Part I: General Provisions

Article 1: General Principles and Scope of Application
2. In cases not covered by this Protocol or by other international agreements, civilians and
combatants remain under the protection and authority of the principles of international
law derived from established custom, from the principles of humanity and from the
dictates of public conscience.
3. This Protocol, which supplements the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 for the
protection of war victims, shall apply in the situations referred to in Article 2 common
to those Conventions.


Part III: Methods and Means of Warfare, Combatant and Prisoner of War Status

Article 43: Armed Forces
1. The armed forces of ...