15-03-2022 | 16:56 PM
Geneva Conventions guidelines during wartime
Although Russia is a party to the Geneva Conventions, its armed forces continue to systematically and defiantly violate international humanitarian law in Ukraine.
The Geneva Conventions are a set of four treaties, formalised in 1949, and three additional protocols.
It contains the most important rules limiting the barbarity of war. They protect people who do not take part in the fighting and those who can no longer fight.
First Geneva Convention protects wounded and sick soldiers on land during war.
Second Geneva Convention protects wounded, sick and shipwrecked military personnel at sea during war.
Third Geneva Convention applies to prisoners of war.
Fourth Geneva Convention protects civilians, including those in occupied territory.
Common Article 3
Article 3, common to the four Geneva Conventions, marked a breakthrough, as it covered, for the first time, situations of non-international armed conflicts.
They include traditional civil wars, internal armed conflicts that spill over into other States or internal conflicts in which third States or a multinational force intervenes alongside the government.
