About the series: The application and interpretation of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their two Additional Protocols of 1977 have developed significantly in the sixty years since the ICRC ...

Geneva (ICRC) – On the 75 th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross made a call to make the Geneva Conventions a ...

The 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols have been described by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as "one of humanity's most important accomplishments of the ...

Although this rule emerged seven centuries before the Geneva Conventions were adopted, the similarity is striking. Listen to Professor Mutoy Mubiala, International Law and Human Rights. These values, ...

This year, we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Convention, the culmination of several conventions that make ...

In this week’s Inside Geneva podcast episode, journalists at the United Nations in Geneva and New York look back at 2024.

The 1951 Refugee Convention, supplemented by its 1967 Protocol, help protect them. They are the cornerstone of refugee protection and the key legal documents that form the basis of UNHCR’s work. The ...

The Embassy of Switzerland to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, together with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), ...

PSC Report asked Patrick Youssef, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Director for Africa how implementation of the Geneva Conventions could be enhanced. How does Africa fair in ...

The Moscow Conventions were presented in Ukraine, consisting of 137 articles based on real-life accounts of former prisoners of war, their relatives and brothers-in-arms. Source: the document is an ...

After a year-long deferral, the Parties to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment (the Espoo Convention) and its ...