Vishchyk Maksym, Pizzi Jeremy. Nationality as the basis of protected status under Geneva Convention IV: a mysterious case of mistaken death

For a civilian caught up in the crossfire of an international armed conflict, determining protected status under international humanitarian law (‘IHL’) represents more than a theoretical exercise of distant intellectualisation by jurists. It takes centre stage in the trenches of suffering, and is arbiter in deciding who receives the full protection of the Fourth Geneva Convention (‘GC IV’) or who is limited to the residual guarantees of Additional Protocol I reserved to those “who do not benefit from more favourable treatment under the Conventions”.

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