Geneva Convention

American  

noun

1. one of a series of international agreements, first made in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1864, establishing rules for the humane treatment of prisoners of war and of the sick, the wounded, and the dead in battle.

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Geneva Convention British  

noun

1. the international agreement, first formulated in 1864 at Geneva, establishing a code for wartime treatment of the sick or wounded: revised and extended on several occasions to cover maritime warfare and prisoners of war

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Example Sentences

The Geneva Convention forbids the intentional targeting of wounded combatants, saying that those participants should be apprehended and given medical aid.

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It has no pool of Russian civilian prisoners because it's against the rules of war under the Geneva Convention.

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There was no training on the Geneva Convention, to which Russia and Ukraine are both signatories, and which prohibits the killing of people who have surrendered or no longer pose a threat.

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The most recent version, the fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, was adopted after the Second World War and was intended to stop the mass killing of civilians from happening again.

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He says that as a patient in hospital, Barhoum had a right to be protected under the Geneva Convention.

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