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"UN: Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts, 1977" [2005] ELECD 314; 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 91

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

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

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

Commentary: The Second Additional Protocol (1125 UNTS 609, entry into force
1978) provides additional protections for non-international armed conflicts. Article 2
thereof provides that the Protocol applies without distinction to all affected persons.



Part I: Scope of this Protocol

Article 1: Material Field of Application
1. This Protocol, which develops and supplements Article 3 common to the Geneva
Conventions of 12 August 1949 without modifying its existing conditions of applica-
tion, shall apply to all armed conflicts which are not covered by Article 1 of the Protocol
Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection
of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) and which take place in the
territory of a High Contracting Party between its armed forces and dissident armed
forces or other organized armed groups which, under responsible command, exercise
such control over a part of its territory as to enable them to carry out sustained and
concerted military operations and to implement this Protocol.
2. This Protocol shall not apply to situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as
riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence and other acts of a similar nature, as not
being armed conflicts.


Part II: Humane Treatment

Article 4: Fundamental Guarantees
1. All persons who do not take a direct part or who have ceased to take part in ...