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Red Cross Conventions |
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The chief embodiments of international humanitarian law, these are the four conventions, alternatively known as the ‘Geneva Conventions’, which were agreed at Geneva in 1949 and are still in force today. They deal respectively with
the care of the wounded and sick members of armed forces in the field;
the care of the wounded, sick and shipwrecked members of armed forces at sea;
the treatment of prisoners of war; and
the protection of civilian persons in time of war. Almost all states are party to these important and – at least in the last regard – innovative Conventions. Nevertheless, post-1949 changes in methods of warfare, among other things, required greater attention to be given to the protection of the civilian population against the direct effects of hostilities. As a result, in 1977 two new treaties of international humanitarian law were adopted: the ‘Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions’. A clear majority of states are today bound by at least one of these. See also International Committee of the Red Cross. |
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