Host: International Committee of the Red Cross
Languages: English, French, Spanish, Arabic
Where: room 18
Description:
This side event will present the ICRC project to update the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols. It will highlight salient features of the first updated commentary to be launched online at the International Conference: the First Geneva Convention of 1949 for the protection of wounded and sick members of armed forces in the field. This first update also includes a new commentary on all the common Articles.