Reply #5: From their site..... [View All]

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ON EDIT: I am sure journalists and their organizations/buildings are protected as well.... or at least they are supposed to be, even ones from Italy and Al Jazeera.


http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/genevaconventions

The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols are part of international humanitarian law – a whole system of legal safeguards that cover the way wars may be fought and the protection of individuals.


They specifically protect people who do not take part in the fighting (civilians, medics, chaplains, aid workers) and those who can no longer fight (wounded, sick and shipwrecked troops, prisoners of war).


The Conventions and their Protocols call for measures to be taken to prevent (or put an end to) what are known as "grave breaches"; those responsible for breaches must be punished.


More than 190 States have adhered to the Conventions – that's almost every country in the world.



Key issues
The essential rules
Humanitarian law: your questions answered
The Geneva Conventions and the red cross / red crescent emblems
Humanitarian law and human rights
How the founding of the ICRC led to the first Geneva Convention

Full documentation on International humanitarian law