The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War was signed at Geneva, July 27, 1929. Its official name is the Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. It entered into force 19 June 1931. It
Front page of a French edition of the 1929 Geneva Convention
Bilingual French/German version of the 1929 Geneva Convention, from a 1934 edition of the Reichsgesetzblatt
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The Geneva Conventions are a series of four international treaties and their three additional protocols that form the core of international humanitarian law. They establish legal standards for humanit
Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War
…1929. Its official name is the Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. It entered into force 19 June 1931. It is this version of the Geneva Conventions which covered the treatment of prisoners of war during World War II. It is the predecessor of the Third Geneva Convention signed in 1949. The International…
The first-ever Geneva Convention governing the sick and wounded members of armed forces was signed in Geneva in August 1864.
The signing of the first-ever Geneva Convention by some of the major European powers in 1864
Henry Dunant, co-founder of the Red Cross