Geneva Conventions

1. A set of international rules that govern the treatment of prisoners, the sick and wounded, and civilians during war. Under the Geneva Conventions, for example, ambulances and military hospitals and their staff are officially neutral and are not to be fired upon. Nearly all countries of the world have agreed to the Geneva Conventions.

The first Geneva Convention was drawn up in the late nineteenth century and concerned only the sick and wounded in war. It has been revised several times since to accommodate new wartime conditions.

Example Sentences

So none of her arguments — and nothing in the Geneva Conventions — matters to him until she says exactly what he needs to hear.

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Establishing civilian settlements on occupied land is illegal under the Geneva Conventions, but Israel argues that it has a historic Jewish right to the West Bank.

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Mahdawi, who often cites his belief in the Geneva Conventions and nonviolence as foundational principles, listened, took notes, and framed the lesson this way: “It is unfortunate and painful to see that this is the world that we live in.”

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Amid the war’s devastating wake, Francis Lieber, a German American jurist, proposed a philosophy of amendments and humanitarian principles, the Lieber Codes, templates for the Hague and Geneva Conventions.

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They include the UN Charter and the Geneva Conventions, both of which Israel is party to and both of which are relevant to proportionality.

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