The First Geneva Convention, formally the Geneva Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field and also known as Geneva Convention I or GCI, is the first of the four treaties of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Its subject is the care of wounded members of armed forces in the field. The convention is described as defining the basis on which rest the rules of international law for the protection of the victims of armed conflicts, which places it at the foundation of modern international humanitarian law and makes it a standard reference point for the later conventions in the same series.
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first of the four treaties of the 1949 Geneva Conventions
In Group: Laws of War and International Criminal Law Instruments, Introduction, sentence 1
The Geneva Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field (French: Convention pour l'amélioration du sort des blessés et des malades dans les forces armées en campagne), more commonly referred to as the First Geneva Convention or Geneva Convention I and abbreviated as GCI, is the first of the four treaties of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
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