Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

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Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets has called on the United Nations and the International Committee of the ...

and the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), Pirhossein Kolivand, attended the ceremony. The participants discussed the achievements of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the experiences ...

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The Red Cross museum in Geneva is warning that ... humanitarian law and principles in the birthplace of the Geneva Conventions. Museum director Pascal Hufschmid said he was shocked to learn ...

Prisoners of war, as defined by the Third Geneva Convention, are combatants who actively participate in hostilities. In ...

The Red Cross museum in Geneva is warning that it risks closure ... and explaining international humanitarian law and principles in the birthplace of the Geneva Conventions.