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 ...

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 ...

The atrocities committed on the battlefields of the Second World War made it clear that the First Geneva Convention signed in 1864 needed to be supplemented. In 1949, at the instigation of the Swiss ...

The 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols have been described by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as "one of humanity's most important accomplishments of the ...