CounterPunch

Beware the Derogators: The Geneva Conventions Turn 75

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 ...
Human Rights Watch

Israel/Palestine: Joint Support for Call for a Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention 1949

In light of credible allegations of ongoing violations of international humanitarian law arising from the protracted armed conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in particular in ...
CounterPunch

What Good is a Conference to Counter Ongoing Violations of the Laws of War?

How to react to the recent violence in the Middle East? While international law, especially the laws of war, may be soft law, there seem to be no limits on how the Middle East conflict is being ...
Icrc.org

UN General Assembly 80th session: Statement at the Sixth Committee on the scope and application of the principle of universal jurisdiction

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) welcomes the continued interest of the United Nations General Assembly in the principle of universal jurisdiction and takes note of the ...