After five years of research and consultation, the ICRC has released the updated Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention – ...

JURIST Guest Columnist and international law scholar Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that recently-divulged White House and DOJ memos provide evidence of an illegal, ...

Nepal’s law ministry has prepared a draft bill to “domesticate the Geneva Conventions with the objective of removing the gap in the domestic legal system,” a ministry official was reported to have ...

On the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, twenty-nine leading experts in the field of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) from around the world gathered at Case Western Reserve University ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GENEVA (AP) — At its 75th anniversary, the ...

With a strong nudge from the Supreme Court, the Pentagon today declared that all prisoners in U.S. military custody will henceforth be covered by the Geneva Conventions. The announcement brings ...

There was a time when the world could sit down and write new rules. The decades after 1945 saw an extraordinary wave of treaties: the Geneva Conventions, the Law of the Sea, the Nuclear ...

A German medic said he was so troubled that he confronted his commander. Others boasted about killings in a group chat. By Thomas Gibbons-Neff The global community must draw bright lines for ...

Since Russia first began its military invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, several videos of Russian prisoners of war (POWs) have gone viral. The videos often show the POWs speaking out against Russia’s ...

Under international law, these are called war crimes: deliberate acts that violate the rules of conflict and the Geneva ...