IRRC No. 254
Commentary on the Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977 to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949
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Abstract
Following the adoption of the Additional Protocols in 1977, the ICRC decided to start working on the interpretation of these new treaties of international humanitarian law, just as it had published a Commentary on the Geneva Conventions after their adoption in 1949.