Question

What are the objectives and achievements of Geneva convention

Answer 1

Geneva Conventions, a series of international treaties signed between 1864 and 1949 in Geneva with a view to minimizing the impact of war on soldiers and civilians. In 1977 two additional protocols were approved for the 1949 Agreement.

This Convention provided for (1) the exemption from capture and destruction of all facilities for the care of injured and sick soldiers and their staff, (2) the fair reception and care of all combatants, (3) the protection of civilians rendering assistance to the injured and (4) the recognition of the emblem of the Red Cross as a way of distinguishing persons and equipment protected by the Convention;

The conference developed four conventions accepted in Geneva on 12 August 1949: (1) the Convention on the Improvement of the Status of Wounded and Sick in the Armed Forces in the Field, (2) the Convention on the Improvement of the Status of Wounded , Sick and Shipwrecked Members of the Armed Forces at Sea, (3) the Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War and (4) the Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

The first two conferences expanded on the principle of equal treatment for the ill and wounded. The prisoner-of - war convention further developed the 1929 convention by requiring humane treatment, adequate feeding and the provision of relief supplies and by prohibiting pressure on prisoners to provide more than a minimum of information. The Fourth Convention contained little that had not been developed in international law before the Second World War. While the Convention was not original, disregard for humanitarian values during the war rendered it especially necessary and timely to restate its values