TWENTY-FIVE years ago the first international Peace Conference met at The Hague, having been called by the Czar as a "happy presage for the century about to open." Its chief accomplishment was the ...

Agenda item 75: Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts ( continued) The meeting was called to order at 10.15 ...

Moscow hopes that Syria’s authorities will observe their obligations under the Geneva protocol which bans the use of asphyxiating MOSCOW, July 24 (Itar-Tass) —— Moscow hopes that Syria’s authorities ...

Switzerland breaks diplomatic protocol by offering to host Putin despite ICC arrest warrant for peace negotiations with Ukraine and international opposition. The neutral nation’s unprecedented ...

Amnesty International this week issued a report condemning Hizbollah for its deliberate attacks on Israeli civilians during the recent conflict in Lebanon. In its report, the organization said that ...

The proceedings of the Preparatory Disarmament Commission* at Geneva (TIME, May 24) got under way last week with the election to its presidency of Jonkheer J. Loudon, onetime Foreign Minister of the ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has revoked an additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions related to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts, a Russian ...