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Human rights and armed conflicts: On the 500th anniversary of the birth of Las Casas (1474-1874-1974)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2010

Paul de Geouffre de La Pradelle*
Affiliation:
Vice-President of the Institute of International Law, delegate to the 1949 Diplomatic Conference in Geneva

Extract

The author of the article printed below is Vice–President of the Institute of International Law and had attended the 1949 Diplomatic Conference in Geneva as a delegate. In October 1974 he organized at the Institut d'Etudes politiques d'Aix-en-Provence a colloquium on Las Casas and Human Rights. The article is reproduced, with the author's permission, from a paper presented at the colloquium.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1977

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References

page 403 note 1 By the Spanish theologians, founders of the school of the law of nations.

page 405 note 1 The full text is reproduced in Saint-Lu, La Vera Paz, ésprit evangilique et colonisation, p. 16 et seq.

page 405 note 2 On the proceedings and consequences of the Brussels Conference, see Breucker, T. de, La déclaration de Bruxelles de 1874 concernant les lois et coutumes de la guerre, in Chronique de Politique étrangère, vol. XXVII, No. 1 Google Scholar; Bujard, Danièle, the Geneva Convention of 1864 and the Brussels Conference of 1874, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 163, Oct. 1974 and No. 164, 09. 1974 Google Scholar; Bouekassa, A., Un centenaire, la Conférence de Bruxelles de 1874 sur les his de la guerre, an unpublished paper presented at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix in 1974Google Scholar.

3 See the articles by Pradelle, Albert de La, in Revue generate de droit international public, 1899, tome VIGoogle Scholar.