On August 12, 1949, the four Geneva Conventions were adopted, laying the basis of a normative standard in international humanitarian law. As Balthasar Staehelin, personal envoy of the International ...

The four 1949 Geneva Conventions and their two Optional Protocols form the cornerstone of International Humanitarian Law (the “laws of war”). Virtually every state has ratified the four Geneva ...

The United Nations warned that unfair trials of prisoners of war amounted to war crimes. A UN official, speaking in Geneva on June 10, expressed concern about the sentences, saying that trials under ...

The item entitled “State of signatures and ratifications of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts ...

Rules governing how occupying powers can treat civilians are covered by the Fourth Geneva Convention – one of four treaties adopted after the end of World War II, largely as a response to the horrific ...

On June 9, a Donetsk court found British nationals Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin and Moroccan Brahim Saadoun guilty of participating in military activities as mercenaries on the side of the Ukrainian ...

UNHCR and the UN Office for Legal Affairs are holding a special treaty event this afternoon in Geneva at which Belgium, Gambia, Georgia and Paraguay are expected to accede to one or both of the UN ...

A German medic said he was so troubled that he confronted his commander. Others boasted about killings in a group chat. By Thomas Gibbons-Neff The global community must draw bright lines for ...