Règle correspondante
Norway
Practice Relating to Rule 32. Humanitarian Relief Objects
Norway’s Military Penal Code (1902), as amended in 1981, provides:
Anyone who contravenes or is accessory to the contravention of provisions relating to the protection of persons or property laid down in … the two additional protocols to [the 1949 Geneva] Conventions … is liable to imprisonment.
Norway, Military Penal Code, 1902, as amended in 1981, § 108(b).
Norway’s Penal Code (1902), as amended in 2008, states:
Any person is liable to punishment for a war crime who in connection with an armed conflict … directs an attack against … installations, material, medical units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance … mission … as long as they are entitled to the protection given to … property/civilian objects under international law.
Norway, Penal Code, 1902, as amended in 2008, § 105(a).
In 2006, during a debate in the UN Security Council regarding the situation in Lebanon and Gaza, the Norwegian Minister for Foreign Affairs stated: “[H]umanitarian and relief workers must be given unrestricted and safe access both for themselves and for relief supplies.”
Norway, Statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the UN Security Council regarding the situation in Lebanon and Gaza, 21 July 2006.
