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 ...

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On the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, 29 leading experts in the field of international humanitarian law (IHL) from around the world gathered at Case Western Reserve University School of ...

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

On August 12, 1949, the four Geneva Conventions were adopted, laying the basis of a normative standard in international humanitarian law. As Balthasar Staehelin, personal envoy of the International ...

New information was revealed today indicating that decisions by Bush administration political appointees to ignore the advice of senior military and State Department officials led directly to the ...

In a point by point response to recent statements by the Bush administration regarding the Geneva Conventions, Human Rights Watch explained U.S. obligations to use competent tribunals where the ...

The government is violating the Geneva Convention by deporting asylum seekers whose claims have failed to dangerous countries, states to a report published this week. The study, by the Institute of ...

JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law says that as we celebrate the universality of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, we must recognize that the murder, rape, ...

I wish to express my gratitude to the Government of Switzerland for inviting my Office to participate in this important meeting. I commend the Government of Switzerland as the depositary of the ...