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 ...

Several United Nations experts claim that President Trump violated international law when he pardoned four United States contractors who killed Iraqi civilians. Last week, Trump announced pardons for ...

International humanitarian law emerged from the extreme experience of the twentieth century. The Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols were ...

Backgrounder: U.S. debate over treatment of detainees hinges on interpretation of the Geneva Conventions. A politically charged debate has roiled Congress in recent years over the torture and ...

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 ...

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 United Nations believes that it is important to comply with the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War in Ukraine, Spokesman for the UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric said UNITED NATIONS, ...