The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols ... sick and shipwrecked members of the armed forces at sea. The Third Convention sets out specific rules for the treatment of prisoners ...

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 a series of international ... This became the focus of the third convention, passed in 1929. It stipulates that POWs “be treated humanely, adequately housed and ...

Article 13 of the Third Geneva Convention, as established in 1949, states, “Prisoners of war must at all times be protected, particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against ...

The aforesaid committee noted this in a statement, which continues as follows: “Article 13 of the Third Geneva Convention explicitly prohibits POWs from being subjected to public curiosity. Azerbaijan ...

Switzerland has canceled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territories for want of participants, its Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed on ...