The four Geneva Conventions, agreed by every country, set out how soldiers and civilians should be treated in war. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols form the basis of modern ...

About the series: The application and interpretation of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their two Additional Protocols of 1977 have developed significantly in the sixty years since the ICRC ...

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 most relevant of the laws of war as far as human rights are concerned are the four Geneva Conventions and the two Additional Protocols. The Geneva Conventions and Protocols try specifically to ...

In welcoming the ICRC project to update the commentaries to the Geneva Conventions and their Protocols, concern was expressed about certain substantive provisions contained therein, and the ICRC ...

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 ...

Although there is no treaty that specifically regulates cluster munitions, Additional Protocol I of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions offers internationally accepted legal standards for evaluating ...

The Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly prevented Russian journalists from carrying out their professional duties during the crisis, Russian official says Western air defense systems unlikely to ...