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 ...

AN ex-civil servant who backs tyrant Vladimir Putin has become the first Brit to face war crimes charges over the Ukraine ...

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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 ...

Graham Phillips, 46, is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police ’s War Crimes Team over breaches of the Geneva ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft President Brad Smith called for a global agreement on cybersecurity that he dubbed "the Digital Geneva Convention." McAfee CEO Chris Young likened the near daily cyberattacks ...

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The sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP-6), held in Geneva from 3 to 7 ...

A former civil servant who has publicly voiced his support for Vladimir Putin has reportedly become the first Brit to face ...

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 ...