GENEVA, March 6 (Reuters) - Switzerland has cancelled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territories for want of participants, its Foreign ...

The Geneva Conventions were adopted in 1949 and are now universally ratified, representing a universal acknowledgement that war needs rules to limit its devastating impact on humanity. They form the ...

Key events and decisions. Among the highlights of this meeting of this CoP are the celebration of Convention’s thirtieth anniversary, a UNECE/OECD Seminar on the effective management of technological ...

Submission of eventual comments on: the draft decisions on work on the Industrial Safety of the Energy Transition (ECE/CP.TEIA/2024/3), strengthening implementation of the Convention (ECE/CP.TEIA/2024 ...

The Moscow Conventions were presented in Ukraine, consisting of 137 articles based on real-life accounts of former prisoners of war, their relatives and brothers-in-arms. Source: the document is ...

Seventy-five years since the ratification of the Geneva Conventions, a former child soldier-turned foreign minister of Sierra Leone has urged greater international support for the key accords ...

This week marked 75 years since the adoption of the Geneva Conventions on August 12 1949. In theory, these rules of war are universally agreed by every nation. In practice, they are routinely ...

Aug 12 marked 75 years since the adoption of the Geneva Conventions in 1949. In theory, these rules of war are universally agreed by every nation. In practice, they are routinely violated everywhere.

The conventions, with roots dating to the 19th century, aims to set rules around the conduct of war: They ban torture and sexual violence, require humane treatment of detainees and mandate ...

The Geneva Conventions – the world’s rules of war – are 75 years old and ignored nearly everywhere By: The Associated Press Posted: 3:28 AM CDT Monday, Aug. 12, 2024 Last Modified: 8:18 PM ...

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 ...