Geneva Conventions, cornerstones of international humanitarian law, turn 75 on August 12. With mass civilian casualties and ...

At its 75th anniversary, the world's best-known rulebook on the protection of civilians, detainees and wounded soldiers in war has been widely ignored — from Gaza to Syria to Ukraine to Myanmar ...

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 ...

conference in Geneva was due to discuss Israeli violations of the Geneva Conventions for the fourth time in 75 years. In a rare win described by Israel’s Foreign Ministry as being due to Foreign ...

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 and re-negotiated by international committees between 1864 and 1977 to govern human rights during wartime. Henri Dunant, founder of the ...

Documentary heritage related to the life and work of naturalist Charles Darwin, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted by the UN in 1948 and the Geneva Conventions that contain ...

Several collections document key moments in international cooperation, including the Geneva Conventions (1864-1949) and their protocols (1977-2005), the UDHR and the 1991 Windhoek Declaration ...