UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross warned Tuesday that 70 years after countries adopted the Geneva Conventions to limit the barbarity of war, the terrible ...

GENEVA (AP) – The International Committee of the Red Cross says South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, has signed on to the Geneva Conventions on the conduct of warfare, making the treaties “truly ...

The International Committee of the Red Cross is calling for nations to respect the Geneva Conventions as the group marked the 75th anniversary of their signing Monday. The Geneva Conventions ...

The Geneva Conventions, which aim to protect the human rights of civilians caught up in war, were signed 75 years ago, but the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sees little ...

The Geneva Conventions on warfare have survived a difficult phase since the 2001 attacks on the United States followed by the U.S.-led war on terror, the president of the International Committee of ...

"It requires a lot of patience and a lot of persistence, and this is what we were made for," ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric ...

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 ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Geneva Conventions and related international law need to be updated to reflect the fact that most conflicts nowadays take place inside states not between them, the International ...