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When was the first of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of war victims adopted? |
| A. | 1832 |
| B. | 1857 |
| C. | 1864 |
| D. | 1909 |
| Answer» C. 1864 | |
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Explanation: The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, arid three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for the humanitarian treatmentof war. The singular term Geneva Convention denotes the agreements of 1949, negotiated in the aftermath of the Second World War (1939- 45), which updated the terms of the first three treaties (1864, 1906, 1929), and added a fourth treaty. The First Geneva Convention (1864), for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, is one of four treaties of the Geneva Conventions. |
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