The enforcement of the Geneva Conventions lies in states themselves, and therein lies the weak spot in IHL: The laws seem to ...

The 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols have been described by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as "one of humanity's most important accomplishments of the ...

The Geneva Conventions are a series of international treaties – four, to be precise – agreed by representatives of national governments between 1864 and 1949. Further protocols were added in ...

[4] Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) of 8 June 1977 [hereinafter Protocol I].

GENEVA (Reuters) -Switzerland has cancelled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied ...

Switzerland on Thursday canceled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, for want of participants, in what Israel’s Foreign Ministry ...

The four Geneva Conventions, agreed by every country, set out how soldiers and civilians should be treated in war. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols form the basis of modern ...

Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Oren Marmorstein, tweeted on Monday against the decision to bring together the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention.

The four Geneva Conventions, agreed by every country, set out how soldiers and civilians should be treated in war. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols form the basis of modern ...

The Geneva Conventions are four separate treaties negotiated and re-negotiated by international committees between 1864 and 1977 to govern human rights during wartime. Henri Dunant, founder of the ...