In 1949, an international conference of diplomats built on the earlier treaties for the protection of war victims, revising and updating them into four new conventions comprising 429 articles of law—known as the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949.

The Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005 supplement the Geneva Conventions.

The Geneva Conventions apply in all cases of declared war, or in any other armed conflict between nations.

They also apply in cases where a nation is partially or totally occupied by soldiers of another nation, even when there is no armed resistance to that occupation.

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