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The Geneva Conventions, 1864

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The original title of the Geneva Convention is "Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wonded in Armies in the Field". It has only ten articles and one sole objective: to limit the suffering caused by war. Article 7 provides for the creation of the protective emblem of the red cross. 

The seminal document laid the foundations of international humanitarian law (IHL).

The Convention was signed by 12 States in Geneva on 22 August 1864, under the auspices of Switzerland and the International Committee of the Red Cross. It was revised and supplemented on two occasions before the adoption, in 1949, of the four Geneva Conventions currently in force. Additional Protocols were added to those Conventions in 1977 and in 2005. Switzerland is the depository of those treaties.

In 2013, 194 States are party to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949. 

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Facsimile of the original Geneva Convention, 1864.

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