Site Navigation
Categories:
Geneva Conventions

Summary Of: Geneva Conventions

The Geneva Conventions do not address the use of weapons of war... The Geneva Conventions comprise rules that apply in times of armed conflict and seek to protect people who... The first three Geneva Conventions were revised and expanded in 1949... The Geneva Conventions apply at times of war and armed conflict to governments who have ratified its terms... This article states that the Geneva Conventions apply to all cases of... Grave breaches of the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions include the following acts if committed against a person protected by the convention... Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949... Geneva Conventions of 12 August... are defined in the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols... Sixty years of the Geneva Conventions and the decades ahead...

Encyclodia Page On: Geneva Conventions

These Are Links To Other Documents
| | First Geneva Convention | treaties | protocols | international law | humanitarian | Fourth Geneva Convention | Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907) | Geneva Protocol | Henri Dunant | Red Cross | Nobel Peace Prize | Clara Barton | United States | Nuremberg Trials | protective sign | Red Cross and Red Crescent | First Geneva Convention | Second Geneva Convention | Third Geneva Convention | Fourth Geneva Convention | protocols | Protocol I | Protocol II | Protocol III | sovereignty | declared war | police action | human rights | Protocol I | Protocol II | war crime | ordered them to be committed | universal jurisdiction | International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia | hors de combat | War in Afghanistan (2001–present) | 2003 invasion of Iraq | 2008 War in Georgia | Sri Lankan Civil War | Sudanese Civil War | Colombian Armed Conflict | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia | Dusko Tadic | customary international law | International humanitarian law | International Committee of the Red Cross | Geneva Conference | Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907) | Attacks on humanitarian workers | Human rights | International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies | Laws of war | Nuremberg Principles | Reprisals | Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts Project (RULAC) | Switzerland | Baden | Belgium | Denmark | France | Hesse | Holland | Italy | Portugal | Prussia | Spain | Wurtemburg | War Crimes Act of 1996 | Wikisource | v | First | Second | Third | Fourth | Protocol I | II | III | List of parties | v | d | International criminal law | Sources of international
criminal law
| Customary international law | Peremptory norm | Hague Conventions | Nuremberg Charter | Nuremberg Principles | United Nations Charter | Genocide Convention | Convention Against Torture | Rome Statute | Crimes against
international law
| Crime against humanity | Crime against peace | Crime of apartheid | Genocide | Piracy | Slave trade | War crime | War of aggression | International courts | Nuremberg Trials | International Military Tribunal for the Far East | Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal | Khabarovsk War Crime Trials | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia | International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | Special Panels of the Dili District Court | Special Court for Sierra Leone | Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia | Special Tribunal for Lebanon | International Criminal Court | History | List of war crimes | List of convicted war criminals | Command responsibility | Joint Criminal Enterprise | Laws of war | Universal jurisdiction | v | d | International human rights legal instruments | Cairo Declaration of Human Rights | Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples | Universal Declaration of Human Rights | American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man | Paris Principles | International law | UN Convention Against Torture | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination | Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | Convention on the Rights of the Child | Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Their Families | International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid | International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance | Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples | African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights | Convention on Human Rights | Convention for the Prevention of Torture | Convention for the Protection of National Minorities | Social Charter | American Convention on Human Rights | to Prevent and Punish Torture | International humanitarian law | Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide | Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees | Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees | Hague Conventions | Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court | Categories | Geneva Conventions |
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Geneva Conventions".