Jan. 30 -- Up until Sept. 11, few Americans knew or cared much about the Geneva Conventions. Now, the Geneva Conventions are a part of daily discourse in Washington, a measure of the treatment of al ...

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 ...

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GENEVA (AP) — At its 75th anniversary, the world’s best-known rulebook on the protection of civilians, detainees and wounded soldiers in war has been widely ignored — from Gaza to Syria to Ukraine to ...