Freetown — As an expert in International Humanitarian Law (IHL), the International Committee of the Red Cross (IRC) Thursday issued a press release disclosing that it is working closely with the government of Sierra Leone to support the domestication of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols into national law.
"Today June 8 marks 30 years of Additional Protocols I and II to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, which serve as cornerstone for protection and assistance of victims of international and non-international armed conflicts under International humanitarian law (IHL). At present, 167 States are party to Additional Protocol I and 163 States to Additional Protocol II, Sierra Leone being party to both. This makes the 1977 Additional Protocols among the most widely accepted legal instruments in the world." ICRC recalled that the 1977 Additional Protocols were put together essentially as a response to the increased suffering of civilians in armed conflict due in part to developments in weapons technology.
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