Contents: I. DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM • History • Characteristics of the Geneva Conventions • Characteristics of Wars of National Liberation • 1. The nature of the parties • 2. The nature of the conflict • 3. The Nature of the tactics • II. ROUTE TO PROTECTION OF WARS OF NATIONAL LIBERATION UNDER THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS • Nature of the Parties • The Nature of the Conflict • Development of the Principle of Self-Determination • Nature of Tactics • III. THE FIRST PROTOCOL TO THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS • Nature of the Parties and Nature of the Conflict Under Protocol I • Nature of the Tactics: Guerrilla Warfare under Protocol I • Protection of Civilians Under Protocol I...
Contents: I. DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM • History • Characteristics of the Geneva Conventions • Characteristics of Wars of National Liberation • 1. The nature of the parties • 2. The nature of the conflict • 3. The Nature of the tactics • II. ROUTE TO PROTECTION OF WARS OF NATIONAL LIBERATION UNDER THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS • Nature of the Parties • The Nature of the Conflict • Development of the Principle of Self-Determination • Nature of Tactics • III. THE FIRST PROTOCOL TO THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS • Nature of the Parties and Nature of the Conflict Under Protocol I • Nature of the Tactics: Guerrilla Warfare under Protocol I • Protection of Civilians Under Protocol I • IV. CONCLUSION • International Legal Personality • Definitions • BIBLIOGRAPHY • The paper discusses the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, humanitarian law, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Fourth Hague Convention, combatants entitled to the status of prisoners of war (POW) when captured and to specified treatment during the whole period of their captivity, the Treatment of Prisoners of War and to the Protection of Civilians, torture, pillage, reprisal, deportation, conscription, child labour, warfare, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Genocide Convention, civil wars, guerrilla tactics, freedom fighters, non-state entities, the Swiss Federal Council, international law, colonial wars, the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I, the Charter of the United Nations, the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, the General Assembly, the Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in Accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, John Dugard, Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in Namibia (South West Africa) Notwithstanding Security Council Resolution 276 (1970), self-defence against colonial domination, captured fighters in South Africa, Namibia, Southern Rhodesia and Territories then under Portuguese colonial rule, the International Conference on Human Rights held in Teheran, the OAU (Organization of African Unity), surprise attacks, ambushes, sabotage, peoples under colonial and foreign rule, the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, reprisal, crops, livestock, drinking water, dams, nuclear power stations, starvation, the use of famine against civilians as a weapon of war, neo-colonialism, and the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
