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geneva convention

noun(Geneva convention)

one of a series of agreements concerning the treatment of prisoners of war and of the sick, wounded, and dead in battle first made at Geneva, Switzerland in 1864 and subsequently accepted in later revisions by most nations

geneva convention

noun(Geneva convention)

an international law that explains how people who are wounded or taken prisoner during a war are supposed to be treated

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