A Timeline of Human Rights
(Under Construction)
August 22,
1864
First Geneva Convention adopted
An outgrowth of the same meetings that had created the International Red Cross, the Convention established the first rules guaranteeing neutrality and protection for wounded soldiers, field medical personnel, and specific humanitarian institutions during armed conflict.
General sources
fn1. Grant R. Doty, The United States and the Development of the Laws of Land Warfare [pdf], 156 Mil. L. Rev. (June 1998).