<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6ab52904-cd2e-47cf-80cf-08e2627ba5f3/6ECB0536-CE77-404A-8C40-7441514FE93D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/genevaconventions" href="http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/genevaconventions" style="font-size: 11px;">www.icrc.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/genevaconventions"><DIV class="title">The Geneva Conventions: the core of international humanitarian law</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/genevaconventions"><DIV class="col2block"> <SPAN class="subhead3"> The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols </SPAN><BR /><DIV>(complete versions)</DIV> <DIV class="col2text"><DIV> The first Geneva Convention of 1864 dealt exclusively with care for wounded soldiers; the law was later adapted to cover warfare at sea and prisoners of war. </DIV> In 1949 the Conventions were revised and expanded: <DIV class="sepline"> </DIV> <A target="_blank" href="http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/7c4d08d9b287a42141256739003e636b/fe20c3d903ce27e3c125641e004a92f3">1st Convention</A> <BR />- wounded soldiers on the battlefield <DIV class="sepline"> </DIV> <A target="_blank" href="http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/7c4d08d9b287a42141256739003e636b/44072487ec4c2131c125641e004a9977">2nd Convention</A> <BR />- wounded and shipwrecked at sea <DIV class="sepline"> </DIV> <A target="_blank" href="http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/7c4d08d9b287a42141256739003e636b/6fef854a3517b75ac125641e004a9e68">3rd Convention</A> <BR />- prisoners of war <DIV class="sepline"> </DIV> <A target="_blank" href="http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/7c4d08d9b287a42141256739003e636b/6756482d86146898c125641e004aa3c5">4th Convention</A> <BR /><DIV>- civilians under enemy control </DIV> In 1977 two Additional Protocols were added: <DIV class="sepline"> </DIV> <A target="_blank" href="http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/7c4d08d9b287a42141256739003e636b/f6c8b9fee14a77fdc125641e0052b079">1st Protocol</A> <BR />- international conflicts <DIV class="sepline"> </DIV> <A target="_blank" href="http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/7c4d08d9b287a42141256739003e636b/d67c3971bcff1c10c125641e0052b545">2nd Protocol</A> <BR /><DIV>- non-international conflicts</DIV><BR />In 2005 Additional Protocol III was adopted: <DIV class="sepline"> </DIV><A target="_%22blank%22" href="http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/FULL/615">3rd Protocol</A><BR />- additional distinctive emblem </DIV></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6ECB0536-CE77-404A-8C40-7441514FE93D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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