Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Calls upon all States parties to the Geneva Conventions to consider becoming parties to the Additional Protocols; calls upon all States to consider becoming parties to the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the two Protocols thereto; calls upon all States parties to the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions to ensure their wide dissemination and full implementation; affirms the necessity of making the implementation of international humanitarian law more effective; welcomes the increasing number of national commissions or committees for the implementation of international humanitarian law and for promoting the incorporation of treaties on international humanitarian law into national law and disseminating the rules of international humanitarian law; calls upon States to consider becoming parties to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict; requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its 61st session a report on the status of the Additional Protocols, as well as on measures taken to strengthen the existing body of international humanitarian law.

Adopted without vote, 65th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 59th sess., Suppl. no. 49.