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The Palais Wilson, headquarters of the League of Nations Secretariat from 1920 to 1936 in Geneva, Switzerland. It is now home to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

a meeting of diplomats from sixteen European countries who ultimately created the First Geneva Convention,a treaty designed to save lives,to ease the suffering of wounded and sick soldiers, and to protect civilians who attempted to care for casualties. The First Geneva Convention, known as the Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, 1864, is a good example of how international law is created. Three additions followed the First Geneva Convention, and the treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war has been greatly impacted by the humanitarian activities of the International Red Cross ever since.This was especially true in World War I.

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The United Nations