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manitarian law treaties and their
national implementation.
Paraguay’s Inter-Ministerial Committee
for the Implementation of
International Humanitarian Law
drafted a bill to include war crimes
into military criminal law, and submitted
it to the Congress for approval.
It worked on a bill to punish
such crimes also within the sphere
of ordinary criminal law. It also
encouraged the marking of several
cultural properties with the 1954
Convention emblem.
Peru’s National Committee for the
Study and Implementation of International
Humanitarian Law carried
out the First Course on International
Humanitarian Law “Miguel Grau”
(Lima, April 24th – 2 th, 200 ), addressed
to representatives of the three
government branches, as well as representatives
from the Armed Forces,
the Public Ministry, the Constitutional
Court, the Supreme Council
of Military Justice and civil society.
In the same vein, the Committee
signed a Cooperation Agreement
with the International Humanitarian
Law and Peacekeeping Institute of
the Bochum University (Germany).
Otherwise, the Committee is still
working on projects related to the use
and protection of the Red Cross and
the Red Crescent emblems and to
the amendment of the Children and
Adolescents Code, in relation to ban-
ning the involvement of children in
armed conflicts. It also supports the
following up of the Bill on “Crimes
Against International Human Rights
Law and International Humanitarian
Law” which is pending adoption
by the National Congress.
Dominican Republic’s National
Standing Committee for the Implementation
of International Humanitarian
Law fostered the adoption
of a law on the use and protection
of the red cross, the red crescent
and the red crystal emblems. It also
strived to follow up the reform of
the criminal code so that it will allow
the punishment of war crimes
in accordance with the Geneva Conventions,
their Additional Protocol I
and the Rome Statute.
Uruguay’s National Committee on
Humanitarian Law worked very
hard in 200 . It followed up several
international humanitarian law treaties
that were submitted to the Congress
for adoption; it fostered the bill
on the implementation of the Rome
Statute and analyzed the adoption of
new national implementation measures.
In particular, the Committee
began to prepare a comparative
study on domestic regulations applicable
to the problem of missing
persons and their relatives.
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Report on the Participation of the States in the Relevant Treaties Concerning
International Humanitarian Law and its National Implementation