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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The most relevant of the laws of war as far as human rights are concerned are the four Geneva Conventions and the two Additional Protocols. The Geneva Conventions and Protocols try specifically to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ICRC is a neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian organization. Through the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (Geneva Conventions) and other international legal instruments, the ICRC is mandated ...

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 ...