THE PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW1

by Jean Pictet

Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Lecturer at Geneva University

In this sixty-page book the writer defines fully and with concision humanitarian law in its widest sense, the laws of war of The Hague and Geneva, and the prin- ciples which form the basis for this humanitarian law. This clear summary is understandable to everybody interested in humanitarian ideas and actions in the world today. In addition, the appendix is a chart of the prin- ciples of humanitarian law. It will be recalled that an earlier work by this author, The Principles of the Red Cross, gives the general reader a clear exposition of its subject. Copies of this book, which has already had considerable success, are avail- able in French, English, German and Spanish, from the ICRC Geneva, which published the book.

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