The country had invited 196 parties to the conventions to participate in Geneva but then told them the gathering had been ...

White Flag and Red Cross In 1864, representatives of thirteen nations met in Geneva to discuss the plight of people wounded in wartime. On August 22, 1864, they signed the first Geneva Convention ...

The red cross emblem was adopted under the original Geneva Convention of 1864. It’s an inversion of the Swiss flag (a white cross on a red background). This recognises the historic connection between ...

This move goes against the Geneva Convention, which clearly forbids using former POWs in combat. Two Russian soldiers, Vasili Grigoriev and Dmitri Davydov, were captured by Ukrainian forces in ...