1st Edition
Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
By Jiri Toman
Copyright 1996
544 Pages
by
Routledge
544 Pages
by
Routledge
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At the request of UNESCO, Jiri Toman, Acting Director of the Henry Dunant Institute in Geneva has written this detailed analysis of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict - still the only universal legal instrument in this field. The author has used the materials that emerged from the preparatory work for the Convention and has taken... Read more
Contents: General Introduction; Historical development of the rules of international law concerning the protection of cultural property; Intergovernmental conference on the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict, held in the Hague from 21 April to 14 May 1954; Developments in the protection of cultural property since the Hague Convention. Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, Signed at the Hague on 14 May 1954 (Including the Regulations for its Execution); General provisions regarding protection; Special protection; Transport of cultural property; Personnel; The distinctive emblem; Scope of application of the Convention; Execution of the Convention. Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, Signed at the Hague on 14 May 1954. Resolutions Adopted by the 1954 Hague Conference. The Protection of Cultural Property in Time of Armed Conflict and the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property; (Paris, 14 November 1970). The Protection of Cultural Property in Time of Armed Conflict and the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (Paris, 16 November 1972). Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International and Non-International Armed Conflicts, (Geneva, 8 June 1977); Annexes; Index.
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Toman, Jiri
