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 ...

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 ...

The Conference of the Parties to the UNECE Industrial Accidents Convention will convene for its thirteenth meeting. The meeting will cover key topics on industrial safety and work areas under the ...

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 ...

Four conventions, 400 articles The Geneva Conventions include more than 400 articles, setting out detailed rules for the treatment of prisoners, protecting hospitals and medical staff, allowing ...

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 Geneva Conventions, which have been adopted by nearly all the world’s countries since they were finalized on Aug. 12, 1949, are back on their heels as armed militia groups and national ...

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 ...