U.S. President Donald Trump often says the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics are among the events he is most ...

Israel has been using Palestinian civilians as human shields in the war on Gaza in a clear contravention of international law.

Surprised murmurs transformed into a prolonged standing ovation among delegates at the World Health Assembly on the evening of May 19, 2025, when they realised that no member state would oppose the ...

One of the greatest threats to our future is climate change. Adopted by 196 nations in 2015, the Paris Agreement limited ...

An international agreement should recognize these committees and grant them protection on the battlefield. The original Geneva Convention, adopted in 1864, made these ideas reality and constitutes the ...

In 2024, the U.N. counted more than 36,000 civilian deaths in 14 armed conflicts, warning that the actual total is "likely ...

A favourable impression was produced last night by the German declaration at the Technical Committee of the Arms Commission to the effect that Germany was prepared to sign the international convention ...

Organizations endorsing the resolution include: World Relief, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (Southern Baptist Convention), Christian Life ... children from another country in violation of ...

Because of Russia, my child understood fear early The resolution frames the abduction of children as a violation of international humanitarian law and the Genocide Convention, citing Article 147 of ...

Attacks on civilians or civilian objects are prohibited unless and for such time as they take a direct part in hostilities (Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocol I, Article 48). The International ...

“The laws of war, built on the Geneva Conventions, are sacrosanct, as are the rules requiring all States, without exceptions to protect human rights, including the Convention on the Prevention ...

And according to the Geneva Convention, they have to be released immediately without any exchanges, without any conditions." Diplomatic efforts to end this war grind on fitfully. But there has ...