The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), for the first time in almost 70 years, has added a new commentary to Geneva Convention IV on protection of children in wartime, namely a ...

Referring to the Hezbollah-Israel conflict, UN Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has said that indiscriminate shelling of cities is a war crime; presumably this is meant to apply to ...

Having considered the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories 5 and the ...

Human Rights Watch has identified an IDF practice of coercing civilians to assist IDF military operations. Such a practice involves serious violations of IHL. In one case documented here, IDF actions ...

Considering that the promotion of respect for the obligations arising from the Charter of the United Nations and other instruments and rules of international law is among the basic purposes and ...

Since Russia first began its military invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, several videos of Russian prisoners of war (POWs) have gone viral. The videos often show the POWs speaking out against Russia’s ...