When the Senate considers Alberto R. Gonzales' nomination for attorney general this week, his critics will repeat the accusation that he opened the door to the abuse of al Qaeda, Afghan and Iraqi ...

The initial convention was tweaked slightly in 1906 and then expanded in 1929 to cover the treatment of POWs. The atrocities of World War II, however, led to the wholesale overhaul of the ...

IVSoftware producer Mark Morris and designer Chris Delay made the announcement on YouTube, stating that they had violated the Geneva Convention by making use of the cross which was protected by ...

Plans for the meeting were announced in the autumn and Switzerland had invited 196 states parties to the Geneva Conventions for the conference aimed to discuss steps to take to apply the ...

Among Us developer Innersloth has revealed that the hit social deduction game once violated the Geneva Conventions Act.. READ MORE: The best co-op games to play with your mates In a tweet posted ...

Red Cross and Red Crescent organisations may use these symbols in their logos because of their longstanding role in caring for the sick and wounded during armed conflict. Origin of the emblems. The ...

Geneva is the latest city to join the Aurora Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, bringing the roster of area cities in the organization to 12. Geneva Mayor Kevin Burns said entering into a ...

In times of armed conflict it is the visible sign of the protection conferred by the Geneva Conventions on the victims and on those who come to their aid; in peacetime it shows that a person or object ...

Switzerland has invited 196 states who are parties to the Geneva Conventions to participate in a conference next week on the situation of civilians living in the Israeli occupied territories, a ...

Rules governing how occupying powers can treat civilians are covered by the Fourth Geneva Convention – one of four treaties adopted after the end of World War II, largely as a response to the ...

David Heyman and Gerald Epstein, co-Directors of CSIS' Biological Threat Reduction project (BTR), presented a new approach to biological threat reduction to delegates at the Sixth Review Conference of ...