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 ...

The United Nations warned that unfair trials of prisoners of war amounted to war crimes. A UN official, speaking in Geneva on June 10, expressed concern about the sentences, saying that trials under ...

Amnesty International this week issued a report condemning Hizbollah for its deliberate attacks on Israeli civilians during the recent conflict in Lebanon. In its report, the organization said that ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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

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 ...

Continued attacks on civilians and civilian objects by the armed forces of the Russian Federation violate international law and basic human decency. Over the past centuries, mankind has attempted to ...

The United Nations believes that it is important to comply with the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War in Ukraine, Spokesman for the UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric said UNITED NATIONS, ...