OUTLINE

Chapter 13, XI. 4. The ICRC’s right of initiative Chapter 15, III. Introductory text Chapter 15, III. 1. b) right of initiative Chapter 15, III. 2. In non-international armed conflicts: the right of initiative provided for in Art. 3 common to the Conventions

 LEGAL SOURCE

Common 3/2 (see ICRC updated Commentary)

GC I-IV, 9/9/9/10

P I, Art. 81(1)

 CASES

Counterterrorism and IHL, Humanitarian Exemptions

ICRC, Assistance Policy

Sudan, Report of the UN Commission of Enquiry on Darfur [Para. 550]

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Constitution of Safe Areas in 1992-1993

Sri Lanka, Jaffna Hospital Zone

Sri Lanka, Conflict in the Vanni [Paras 31-36]

Colombia, Constitutional Conformity of Protocol II [Para. 18]

Afghanistan, Soviet Prisoners Transferred to Switzerland

Russian Federation, Chechnya, Operation Samashki [10]

ICRC, International Humanitarian Law and the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts in 2015 [paras 140]

 BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES

 BUGNION François, The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Protection of War Victims, Geneva/Oxford, ICRC/Macmillan, 2003, 1161 pp.

VEUTHEY Michel, “Implementation and Enforcement of Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law in Non-International Armed Conflicts: The Role of the International Committee of the Red Cross”, in AmericanUniversityLaw Review, Vol. 33/1, 1983, pp. 83-97.