The first convictions took place after the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials after World War Two - but what are modern examples of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Switzerland has cancelled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territories ...

Switzerland says it has decided to cancel a planned meeting of diplomats to discuss the protection of civilians in Palestinian territories, citing “profound differences” among countries ...

Switzerland on Thursday canceled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, for want of participants, in what Israel’s Foreign Ministry ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Switzerland has cancelled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territories for want of participants, its Foreign Affairs Ministry ...