It is generally considered that the inability
to protect these and other non-consensual
preferred rights or interests such as the right of
detention were among the reasons why some
other jurisdictions, England among them, did
not ratify the Geneva Convention. The drafters
of the Convention were aware of these defects,
among others, in the Geneva Convention and,
as discussed below in subsection (c), set out to
permit the recognition of preferred national
NCRIs should a Contracting State desire to do
so in its own jurisdiction.