Protocol I was signed in the year June 8, 1977. It is concerned with the security of fatalities of international armed conflicts. It has added new explanations and provisions in the Geneva Convention of 1949. Since, it was essential to amend the rules or provisions written in the Geneva Conventions due to development in technologies of new international warfare. It had been ratified by 168 countries until 2007.
Protocol I has 102 Articles. Protocol I reasserts the provisions of earlier Geneva Conventions.