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The Geneva Conventions are international humanitarian laws consisting of four treaties and three additional protocols that establish international legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war.
The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols are international treaties that contain the most important rules limiting the barbarity of war. They protect people who do not take part in the fighting (civilians, medics, aid workers) and those who can no longer fight (wounded, sick and shipwrecked troops, prisoners of war).
The Geneva Conventions are a series of international treaties concluded in Geneva between 1864 and 1949. Two additional protocols to the 1949 agreement were approved in 1977. The conventions are intended to ameliorate the effects of war on soldiers and civilians.
the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It directs and coordinates the international activities conducted by the Movement in armed conflicts and other situations of violence.
The Geneva Convention, initially held in 1864, sparked a series of international agreements regarding the humane treatment of prisoners of war.
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The Geneva Conventions are a series of treaties on the treatment of civilians, prisoners of war (POWs), and soldiers who are otherwise rendered hors de combat (French, literally for "outside the fight") or incapable of fighting.
Since 1864, IHL has never ceased to evolve to protect human dignity in situations of armed conflict. Daniel Palmieri, the historian of the International Committee of the Red Cross, retraces the historical context and milestones of the Geneva Conventions from 1864 to 2005.
the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, held in Geneva from 21 April to 12 August 1949. Entry into force: 21 October 1950.
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949. States parties and signatories. The Geneva Conventions which were adopted before 1949 were concerned with combatants only, not with civilians.