Rachel Denber, Human Rights Watch (HRW) deputy director, Europe and Central Asia division, said Zelensky posting the clips of ...

The Geneva Conventions are a series of international treaties – four, to be precise – agreed by representatives of national governments between 1864 and 1949. Further protocols were added in ...

Although there is no treaty that specifically regulates cluster munitions, Additional Protocol I of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions offers internationally accepted legal standards for evaluating ...

The Geneva Conventions are one of the most important pieces of internationally ratified legislation of the 20th century, but where did they begin? Let's take a deep dive into the history of the ...

The four Geneva Conventions, agreed by every country, set out how soldiers and civilians should be treated in war. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols form the basis of modern ...

The 1951 Refugee Convention, supplemented by its 1967 Protocol, help protect them. They are the cornerstone of refugee protection and the key legal documents that form the basis of UNHCR’s work. The ...

The first Geneva Convention protects the sick and wounded by giving protection to medical facilities and their staff and any civilians helping the wounded. The convention also recognised the Red ...

The Geneva Conventions are four separate treaties negotiated ... In Germany in WWII, POWs died at a rate 1.2%. In the Pacific theater the rate was 37%. In the Philippines, POWs died at a rate ...

France signed the four Geneva Conventions on 12 August 1949. They were then ratified in 1951. Article 1, which is common to the four Conventions, affirms the obligation to respect and to ensure ...

Source: the document is an alternative to the Geneva Conventions, as reported by the Association of Azovstal Defenders' Families Details: Its articles describe the "norms" of the Russian ...

No international rules existed. In 1864, twelve nations signed the first Geneva Convention, which guaranteed neutrality to medical personnel who would be identified by the special emblem of a red ...

GENEVA, Aug 12 (Bernama-dpa) -- The Geneva Conventions, which aim to protect the human rights of civilians caught up in war, were signed 75 years ago, but the Geneva-based International Committee of ...