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 ...

The enforcement of the Geneva Conventions lies in states themselves, and therein lies the weak spot in IHL: The laws seem to protect on paper but are difficult to enforce in practice. A drone view ...

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 ...