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Seventy-five years of the Geneva Conventions in pictures

A look through the decades at the Geneva Conventions, which, when they were adopted in 1949, were a continuation of earlier provisions of international humanitarian law.

Photo of Renee Marguerite Cramer
Renee Marguerite Cramer ICRC Archive

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