Humanitarian protection
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Humanitarian protection is the act of promoting and ensuring the legal rights of people affected by humanitarian crises.
The Geneva Conventions of 1949
Geneva Conventions
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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
Humanitarian protection
…identified in 2015, exacerbated by a major gap in donor-funding of humanitarian protection activities. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the 1949 Geneva Conventions made clear that combatants must protect civilians from harm, although the conventions did not explicitly define protection as a humanitarian activity…
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