What is acceptable and what is prohibited in armed conflict? The four Geneva Conventions of 1949 form the foundation of international humanitarian law and provide a framework setting out the answers ...

Each of the four Geneva Conventions protects a special category of people who are not or no longer participating in hostilities. The first Geneva Convention protects wounded and sick soldiers on ...

While the first two Geneva Conventions of 1949 protect wounded and sick soldiers in land and naval warfare, the third Convention includes provisions on the treatment of prisoners of war.

what would become the First Geneva Convention in 1949. Born in Geneva, Dunant had witnessed the bloody aftermath of the Battle of Solferino is northern Italy in which tens of thousands of people ...

Although the history of international law regulating warfare goes back to the first Geneva Convention of 1864, World War II — in which twice as many civilians as fighters were among the tens of ...

The following year, 12 European powers agreed to be bound by a new treaty, the First Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field. Signatory states ...

On this episode, a panel of foreign policy experts will discuss the history, significance and future of the Geneva Conventions. We’ll hear about how successful those treaties have been in limiting the ...

On the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, twenty-nine leading experts in the field of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) from around the world gathered at Case Western Reserve University ...