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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor: The Sumud Flotilla, consisting of 42 boats and humanitarians from 44 countries, attempted to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Forty one boats have been listed as having been intercepted by ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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 ...

AI has speedily mutated into use-cases we never thought were possible a few years back, and the need to constrain it has gained attention while we try to gather our wits and decide on matters of ...

The School of Law will host a “The Geneva Conventions at 75: Need for Innovation” symposium Sept. 26–27. This symposium, which serves as the Midwest Regional Conference of the American Branch of the ...

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 ...