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 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 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols ... of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field in 1864, what would become the First Geneva Convention in 1949.

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 red cross emblem was adopted under the original Geneva Convention of 1864. It’s an inversion of the Swiss flag (a white cross on a red background). This recognises the historic connection between ...

No international rules existed. In 1864, twelve nations signed the first Geneva Convention, which guaranteed neutrality to medical personnel who would be identified by the special emblem of a red ...

The Geneva Convention was fleshed out between 1864 and 1949 in order to lay some ground rules to protect non-combatants, including civilians and prisoners of war. Smith pointed out that at the ...