PROTECTION OF THE VICTIMS OF INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTS IN THE LIGHT OF THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS

Abstract

The present study aimed to find out the scope of protection provided by international humanitarian law to civilians during armed conflicts and the extent to which this protection is applied on the ground. The researcher used the descriptive method to study the phenomenon by citing the provisions of the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-personnel Mines and the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969, the third protocol attached to the Convention on the Prohibition of Certain Conventional Weapons, the protocol on causative laser weapons For blindness and the Fourth Protocol attached to the Convention on the Prohibition of Certain Arms of 1980, Article (51) Paragraph 3 of the First Protocol and Article 13 Paragraph 3 of the Second Additional Protocol, Article 36 of the First Additional Protocol on the regulation of weapons in international humanitarian law, Article 38 (1) (b) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice and Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice. The study reached many results, the most prominent of which is that international humanitarian law about the protection of civilians during armed conflicts does not lack in many issues the legal mechanisms for its implementation, as much as the absence of the political will of states stands without it.