Switzerland has called off a conference on applying the Geneva Conventions in the Middle East following protests from several countries. This content was published onMarch 7, 2025 – 08:58 Keystone-SDA Other languages: 5 +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Too few participants supported the draft final […]
Listen to the articleToggle language selectorShare Late on Thursday, Switzerland cancelledExternal link a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territories for want of participants, after some […]
Listen to the articleToggle language selectorShare From Ukraine to the Middle East, through Sudan and Ethiopia, international humanitarian law is under severe strain. The Geneva Conventions celebrate their 75th anniversary […]
Aug 14,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen Last Monday marked the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Geneva Conventions which form the foundation of international humanitarian law. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) defines the Conventions as a “set of rules seeking to limit the effects […]
Aug 14, 2024 euobserver EU & the WorldRule of Law by Wester van Gaal, Amsterdam, August 14, 2024, 2:56:04 PM The United States has approved an additional $20bn (€18bn) worth of weapons […]
IDF soldiers have shared scores of videos of their conduct in Gaza. The American-Israeli soldier says his videos were ‘taken out of context’ Alice Speri Sat 3 Aug 2024 An […]
By Andrea Tognina Aug 12, 2019 – 15:46 (Keystone) Seventy years ago, Switzerland achieved a modest diplomatic coup. Notwithstanding the relative isolation in which it found itself after the Second […]
A tweet from the author Mason Cross of his daughter’s school feedback form has been shared thousands of times. Cross shared the photo on Thursday, and within hours it had been shared over 12,000 times and liked by more than 33,000. View image on Twitter The form asked his daughter what […]
By Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net MAY 23, 2016 – 17:00 An ICRC humanitarian convoy delivering aid to the residents of a suburb of Damascus held by rebels and under siege from government forces since 2013 (Reuters) The Geneva Conventions form the heart of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), which is supposed to […]
DEC 17, 2014 – 15:56 Construction materials being unloaded at a new housing unit in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Har Homa (Keystone) A total of 126 of 196 parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention have met in Geneva and agreed that international humanitarian law must be followed in areas […]
Israel on Friday condemned Switzerland’s plan to host a conference on respect for international human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, charging it was a deviation from the country’s traditional neutrality. Switzerland has announced a December 17th conference in Geneva, in response to a recommendation from the UN General Assembly […]
The Swiss foreign ministry is holding exploratory talks for an international conference on the respect of humanitarian law in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian authorities. The ministry confirmed it received a letter from the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, urging Switzerland as a depository state of the Geneva Conventions […]
Robert Fisk: Our modern gods: Amnesty International, the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations They provide a reflection of our universal need for human protection, but are without artistic merit Why did we give up on the old, grumpy, whimsical, brutal gods of old, with their adulterous, murderous, gentle, […]
swissinfo.ch As guardian of the Geneva Conventions Switzerland has the moral authority to seek action over Israeli “violations” of international law, says the chief Palestinian negotiator. This week Saeb Erekat […]