Szpak, Agnieszka2013-07-162013-07-162006Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 68, 2006, z. 4, s. 59-77.0035-9629http://hdl.handle.net/10593/6837The purpose of the paper is to present in an accessible and synthetic manner the ways in which international humanitarian law contained in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 for the protection of the victims of war and in the Additional Protocols of 1977 may be implemented. Despite the existence of some implementing measures, the international humanitarian law, being part of public international law, is still weaker when compared with to national law, as it is burdened with all the restrictions characteristic of international law. The analysis of those measures of implementation, their weaknesses and the hopes attached to them show that although they are largely capable of meeting the contemporary challenges, what is still lacking, is a political will and, often, the knowledge of, or familiarity with humanitarian law; hence the importance of disseminating the norms and principles of this law, as emphasised in the paper. In this context the author shortly revises the case of responsibility for the crimes committed on the Guantanamo Bay detainees. 46plArtykuł