Government Sources by Subject: Geneva Conventions: Treatment of Prisoners of War

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The Geneva Conventions, also known as the Geneva Red Cross Conventions, are international agreements to protect non-hostile individuals such as the sick, wounded, prisoners of war, and civilians during times of war.

GENEVA CONVENTION, The Avalon Project, Yale University
Laws of War: a list of agreements with their coinciding years and links to the full text. The Geneva Conventions are at the bottom of the page.
Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment
Nearly 300 entries on the history of prisoners of war and interned civilians. Includes entries for the Geneva Conventions. See the index for other entries that refer to the conventions.

Geneva Convention 1929

United States Statutes at Large
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Access for all on-campus; login required from off-campus. The text as signed in 1929, ratified by the U.S. in 1932. The legal citation can be found in volume 47, page 2021.
Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
Full text provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Geneva Convention 1949

Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, United Nations
The text of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, from the United Nations.
United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS), 1949, volume 75
Print only.
* I. Amelioration of the wounded & sick (land)
* II. Amelioration of the wounded & sick (sea)
* III. Treatment of POWs
* IV. Protection of civilians
Multilateral treaties : index and current status
Print only. See citation and notes under Treaties 238 to 241.

1864 Geneva Convention

A series of signatures with seals in red wax. the writing is illegible.

Delegate signatures on the 1864 Geneva Convention.

Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Government Sources by Subject: Geneva Conventions: Treatment of Prisoners of War

Starting Points

Geneva Convention 1929

Geneva Convention 1949

1864 Geneva Convention

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