From Geneva to San Remo; Developments in the Humanitarian Law on Armed Conflicts at Sea

Humanitarian law applicable to the marine armed conflicts have not been faced with any development after 12 August 1949 through the conventional norms unlike some other aspects of armed conflicts or land armed conflicts. However, some parts of first protocol, inter alia, the whole of its forth part apply to the marine armed conflicts. Developments and progresses had been emerged in the context of Modern Technology and naval warfare have shown that The Law of armed conflicts at seas need to development and codification, because most of its instruments were created in the 20th century and was almost old. through analyzing the customary norms, and some aspects of international soft law, specially The San Remo Manual, can be found that despite the absence of new conventional norms in this context, but the humanitarian law applicable on the armed conflicts at seas has had a sort of developments that most of them are about precautions in attacks, concept of the "military objectives, Military Activities in Different Areas of the Sea, aircrafts and protection of marine environments.