Twenty years ago, the adoption of the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (A/CPPNM) marked the start of a new era in international efforts to counter the risk of ...

On June 30, 1900, the Geneva Daily Times reported, enigmatically, “Howard C. Benham arrived in Batavia yesterday.” In 1897, ...

A community planning committee and the Women’s Rights National Historical Park have finalized a full slate of events for next weekend’s Convention Days 2025, an annual summer ...

As battlefields multiply across the world, Pierre Krähenbühl, the director general of the International Committee of the Red ...

The idea to revise the Geneva Conventions was rejected, because people was afraid that, in a very tense political climate, some important achievements in 1949 Geneva Conventions would be weakened by a ...

The Geneva Conventions were born from the ashes of wars and genocide, shaped by the collective resolve to prevent such horrors from ever recurring. Their principles were not abstract ideals but a ...

It was a critical time in US history when an expansionist American administration not only endangered the past century's momentous achievements in international treaty law by crushing them, but also ...

Documentary heritage related to the life and work of naturalist Charles Darwin, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted by the UN in 1948 and the Geneva Conventions that contain ...

The country had invited 196 parties to the conventions to participate in Geneva but then told them the gathering had been canceled.

Switzerland has cancelled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territories for want of participants, its Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed on ...

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

With a history stretching over more than a century, the Geneva Conventions, first conceived by the International Committee of the Red Cross, have tried to curb the unnecessary loss, tragedy, and ...