IRRC No. 206
Fundamental rules of humanitarian law applicable in armed conflicts
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Abstract
At the October 1975 meeting of the Council of Delegates of the National Red Cross Societies in Geneva, Professor H. Haug, President of the Swiss Red Cross and Vice-President of the League, had proposed that a declaration should be drawn up, setting out in a condensed form the fundamental rules of humanitarian law, and rendering the lofty ideas underlying humanitarian law clearly discernible and easily understandable.