The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: Friday, 8 June, is the thirtieth anniversary of Protocols I and II additional to the 1949 Geneva ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MOSCOW, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has revoked an additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions related ...

This item was included in the agenda of the thirty-seventh session of the General Assembly, in 1982, at the request of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden (A/37/142). At its sixty-ninth session, the ...

The first Geneva Convention was signed in 1864 to protect the sick and wounded in times of war. Since then, there have been numerous additions and revisions to this statute. The Geneva Conventions ...

The Geneva Conventions are a series of international treaties – four, to be precise – agreed by representatives of national governments between 1864 and 1949. Further protocols were added in 1977 and ...

The Convention against Torture defines torture as “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person by, or at the instigation of or with ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has revoked an additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions related to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts, a Russian ...