Abstract
This article shows that between the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights in 1948 and the Tehran conference in 1968, international human rights law
and international humanitarian law and their respective guardian institutions, the
United Nations (UN) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), were
not so conceptually far apart as is sometimes suggested. Its purpose is to give further legitimacy to the role of human rights law in armed conflict and show that
cooperation between the UN and the ICRC has a long history.
Rights in 1948 and the Tehran conference in 1968, international human rights law
and international humanitarian law and their respective guardian institutions, the
United Nations (UN) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), were
not so conceptually far apart as is sometimes suggested. Its purpose is to give further legitimacy to the role of human rights law in armed conflict and show that
cooperation between the UN and the ICRC has a long history.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1433-1454 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | International review of the Red Cross |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue number | 888 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- international human rights law
- international humanitarian law
- ICRC
- United Nations
- relationship
- armed conflict
- complementarity
