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

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 ...

On August 22, 1864, they signed the first Geneva Convention, agreeing that those wounded in war, as well as the people and facilities catering to the wounded, would merit non-belligerent status.

The following year, 12 European powers agreed to be bound by a new treaty, the First Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field. Signatory states ...

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 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 ...

what would become the First Geneva Convention in 1949. Born in Geneva, Dunant had witnessed the bloody aftermath of the Battle of Solferino is northern Italy in which tens of thousands of people ...

The Clint Eastwood movie the military disowned was 'Heartbreak Ridge', which allegedly featured a scene of Eastwood's ...

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 ...

146 ICRC, Customary International Humanitarian Law, rule 146, citing, for example, First Geneva Convention, art. 46; Fourth Geneva Convention, art. 33. 147 Common article 3 to the 1949 Geneva ...

At his confirmation hearing, Trump’s Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, refused to say whether the U.S. should abide by the Geneva Convention. Hegseth has also called a two-state solution to the Israeli ...