IRRC No. 199
Human rights and armed conflicts: On the 500th anniversary of the birth of Las Casas (1474-1874-1974)
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Abstract
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.