"1 Reaffirms that the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, is applicable to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, ...

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 ...

Having considered the reports of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories 1 and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Continued attacks on civilians and civilian objects by the armed forces of the Russian Federation violate international law and basic human decency. Over the past centuries, mankind has attempted to ...

The four 1949 Geneva Conventions and their two Optional Protocols form the cornerstone of International Humanitarian Law (the “laws of war”). Virtually every state has ratified the four Geneva ...

UNHCR and the UN Office for Legal Affairs are holding a special treaty event this afternoon in Geneva at which Belgium, Gambia, Georgia and Paraguay are expected to accede to one or both of the UN ...