Original sentence: Adopted on June 8, 1977 by the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law applicable in Armed Conflicts presided over by Pierre Graber of Switzerland.Protocol II is an amendment to the Geneva Conventions.The protocol entered into force on December 7, 1979 (six months after its adoption by the conference) for the original signatories, and otherwise does so six months after a party's ratification
Edited sentence: By the 1970s, diplomats were attempting to negotiate clarifications to the brief language of Article 3, and to extend the scope of international law to cover additional humanitarian rights in the context of internal conflicts.Common Article 3 applies to armed conflicts that are not of an international character, but that are contained within the boundaries of a single country.Historically, international law of armed conflict addressed traditional declarations of war between nations.It provides limited protections to victims, including:.Persons taking no active part in hostilities should be treated humanely (including military persons who have ceased to be active as a result of sickness, injury, or detention).The wounded and sick shall be collected and cared for.Thes efforts resulted in Protocol II of the Geneva Conventions.These negotiations resulted in Article 3, common to all four of the basic treaties of the Geneva Conventions.When the Geneva Conventions were updated in 1949 after the Second World War, delegates sought to define certain minimum humanitarian standards to situations that had all the characteristics of war, without being an international war