Reservations to the Geneva Conventions of 1949

In: International review of the Red Cross: humanitarian debate, law, policy, action, Band 16, Heft 180, S. 107-124

Abstract

The International Review of the Red Cross published in August 1957 a study concerning reservations to the 1949 Geneva Conventions for the protection of war victims. At that time a total of 66 States were bound by the Conventions and 18 of them had expressed their accession subject to reservations. In July 1965, the Review published an additional study on the same subject. At that date, the number of States bound by the Conventions had increased to a total of 106; of these, 20 had expressed reservations.