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 ...

Today marks 75 years since the adoption of the Geneva Conventions on August 12 1949. In theory, these rules of war are universally agreed by every nation. In practice, they are routinely violated ...

This would become the basis for the international Red Cross and the first Geneva Convention. There were four meetings of the Geneva Convention. The first one took place in 1864. It called for the ...

What exactly is the Geneva Convention? A stickler for legal accuracy would first point out that it should be “Geneva Conventions,” plural. The treaty that Rumsfeld cites is formally known as ...

The first question was whether the Geneva Conventions applied to the U.S. conflict with the Taliban. Since Afghanistan was widely considered a failed state, it was not self-evident that the Geneva ...

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 ...

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.

Some say international humanitarian law took the wrong approach back in the 1860s when the very first Geneva Convention was adopted, because it accepted war and gave up on insisting on peace.

On August 22, 1864, they signed the first Geneva Convention, agreeing that those wounded in war, as well as the people and facilities catering to the wounded, would merit non-belligerent status.

At Panmunjom last week the Communists accused the U.S. of “tearing up the Geneva Convention” in its treatment of war prisoners. It was not the first time the Communists had used the Convention ...