Backgrounder: U.S. debate over treatment of detainees hinges on interpretation of the Geneva Conventions. A politically charged debate has roiled Congress in recent years over the torture and interrogation techniques of those detained by the United States.

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 confirmed on Thursday, after some countries expressed ...

With a total of 196 state parties, there are no other international treaties as widely ratified as the four 1949 Geneva Conventions on the Laws of War. But these important treaties are showing their age. The rules and principles they established for the ...

International humanitarian law emerged from the extreme experience of the twentieth century. The Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols were

Report covering 23 conflicts over last 18 months concludes more than 100,000 civilians have been killed as war crimes rage out of control

SAN FRANCISCO — With nation-states now conducting cyber attacks against civilians, it's time for a digital equivalent to the Geneva Convention, Microsoft President Brad Smith said in his RSA Conference keynote here today. What he'd like to see is an ...

According to the statement, the international rules of war were created "to protect the powerless: the civilian caught in the crossfire, the wounded on the battlefield, the prisoner behind bars" GENEVA, August 12. /TASS/. Countries’ commitment to the ...

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