Seventy-five years of the Geneva Conventions in pictures
![Image of The First International Peace Conference the Hague May -June_1899](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/The_First_International_Peace_Conference_the_Hague_May_-_June_1899_HU67224.jpg)
![Mr. Gustave Ador, President of the ICRC from 1910 to 1928.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/Gustave-Ador.jpg)
![Miss Renée-Marguerite Cramer, member of the ICRC.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/V-P-HIST-00569-21A.jpg)
![Geneva, hall of the university auditorium. Conference on the revision of the Geneva Convention. June/July 1906](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/V-P-HIST-03582-12.jpg)
![Charles De Gaulle,](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/GettyImages-515505324.jpg)
![First World War, 1914-1918. German prisoners of war eating in a dormitory of the Roche-Maurice, prisoner of war camp.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/V-P-HIST-00617-24.jpg)
![Diplomatic conference on the revision of the Geneva Convention, Swiss delegation. 12 August 1949 is an important date in the development of international humanitarian law. On this day, the revised and expanded texts of the first three conventions, as we know them today, and the fourth humanitarian convention on the protection of civilians were signed.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/V-P-HIST-03343.jpg)
![Interior view of one of the internment barracks, Egolzwil-Wauwil, Canton Lucerne. 1940s.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/Egolzwil_-_Wauwilermoos_POW_camp_barracks_interior.jpeg)
![French actor and singer Maurice Chevalier](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/GettyImages-862257290.jpg)
![The second edition of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/V-P-CH-E-01218.jpg)
![Geneva. Signature of the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949. Protocol I relates to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts and Protocol II applies to non-international armed conflicts.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/V-P-CER-N-00025-18.jpg)
![Mrs Hochar introduces Mrs Pfirter, head of the ICRC's medical staff department. Mrs Sarhal, Mrs Renée Araman, members of the Central Committee, who together with Mrs Hochar are responsible for the nursing school.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/V-P-LB-E-01040.jpg)
![Djorf assembly centre. Fourth detention mission (15/05/1957 - 06/07/1957). With Mr Gaillard and Mr Gailland.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/V-P-DZ-N-00006A-01.jpg)
![Mrs Jane Vickers from the Kenyan Red Cross. A member of the Kenyan Red Cross hands the commander of the military medical service a small green brochure with a copy of the Geneva Conventions.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/V-P-KE-E-00147.jpg)
![Monrovia. Scuplture memoriating the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/V-P-LR-N-00046-01.jpg)
![Arab-Israeli conflict of 1973. Damascus. Arrival of 345 Syrian, Iraqi and Moroccan prisoners of war transferred by the ICRC. The prisoners of war are Syrian, Moroccan and Iraqi. One aircraft is chartered by the ICRC, the other on loan from the United Nations.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/V-P-ILAA-D-00032-03.jpg)
![Arab-Israeli conflict of 1973. Search for bodies under the auspices of the ICRC.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/V-P-ILAA-N-00038-34.jpg)
![A detainee, in orange jump suit, is transported inside Camp X-Ray at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday, March 27, 2002.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/8031575_highres.jpg)
![Versoix near Geneva, shows the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Central tracing agency (CTA)](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/08/534537753_highres.jpg)
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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.
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