Norma relacionada
Sweden
Practice Relating to Rule 135. Children
According to Sweden’s IHL Manual (1991), the “general protection of … children” contained in the 1977 Additional Protocol I has the status of customary international law.
Sweden, International Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict, with reference to the Swedish Total Defence System, Swedish Ministry of Defence, January 1991, Section 2.2.3, p. 19.
The manual further provides: “The occupying power also has a particular responsibility in the area of child care.”
Sweden, International Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict, with reference to the Swedish Total Defence System, Swedish Ministry of Defence, January 1991, Section 6.1.3, p. 123.
Sweden’s IHL Manual (1991) provides:
It is also possible for the parties to reach an agreement during a conflict that all acts of war shall cease temporarily within a given part of a conflict area. Such agreements are commonly made to afford protection to civilian populations, and specially to such exposed groups as children.
Sweden, International Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict, with reference to the Swedish Total Defence System, Swedish Ministry of Defence, January 1991, Section 3.4.1, p. 84.
