Wars Humanising Wars

... humanitarian and a witness of the outrageous 1859 Battle of Solferino [5] , is considered to be the initiator for both the Convention and what became the International Committee of Red Cross. Without getting into historical evolution of IHL before World War II, it is worth noticing that international humanitarian law, or laws of war, consisted of two main branches [6] : ‘Law of Geneva’, represented by the Geneva Conventions of 1864, 1905, 1929. The main focus of those Conventions was to protect people hors de combat , no longer ...