UN: Engage with rebels to protect humanitarian law

The world body must engage more with insurgent groups in conflicts around the world to ensure they too are respecting the Geneva Conventions. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Saturday.

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UN chief: protect civilians during armed conflicts

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marked the 60th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions on Wednesday with a plea to all countries to take steps to ensure that civilians and other non-combatants are protected during armed conflicts.

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Red Cross: Geneva Conventions pass difficult phase

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 the Red Cross said Tuesday.

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No 'Call of Duty' without 'Rules of War'

Evan Spencer wanted to play “Call of Duty: World at War.” So he asked his dad.

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Official: Pentagon report defends Guantanamo

The Guantanamo Bay prison meets the standard for humane treatment laid out in the Geneva Conventions but could use some changes in how it handles its more dangerous or less compliant prisoners, according to a Pentagon report.

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Interrogator details pre-Abu Ghraib abuses

A military interrogation expert, Air Force Col. Steven Kleinman, told Congress on Thursday that prior to the abuses at Abu Ghraib, he witnessed interrogations of Iraqi detainees that he considers violations of the Geneva Conventions.

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Red Cross: Colombia broke Geneva Conventions

The International Red Cross said Wednesday that Colombia broke the Geneva Conventions by deliberately using the humanitarian group's emblem during the covert military mission that freed Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages.

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Interrogations Deal Grants Bush Leeway

A Republican deal on terrorism trials and interrogations would give President Bush wide latitude to interpret standards for prisoner treatment, even though it doesn't include a provision he wanted on the Geneva Conventions.

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Rep. Hunter Says Detainee Policy Too Lax

The House Armed Services chairman, who advocates a tough stance on terrorist prisoner suspects, warned Wednesday against being too lax in prosecuting detainees.

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U.S. Will Give Detainees Geneva Rights

The Bush administration, called to account by Congress after the Supreme Court blocked military tribunals, said Tuesday all detainees at Guantanamo Bay and in U.S. military custody everywhere are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions.

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The conviction that Jewish settlements in the West Bank are illegal is now so commonly accepted, it hardly seems as though the matter is even open for discussion. But it is.

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"International law is actually not particularly ambiguous about the status of the members of al Qaeda.

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A new study has found more than 40 per cent of Australians believe it is acceptable to torture enemy soldiers in certain circumstances.

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Panama's former dictator, Manuel Noriega, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to block his extradition to France to face money-laundering charges, arguing he must be allowed to return home.

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America has been standing on shaky moral ground for a very long time. A country that was once viewed as the embodiment of justice and liberty has long been neither just, nor liberated.

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With the release of "the Holy Grail report" due this Friday, many are wondering if the CIA is trying to cover up for Cheney. As I have noted in numerous discussions, the claims of efficacy touted by Cheney are supported only by Cheney.

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Petraeus admits U.S violated Geneva Conventions

In a stunning admission, General David Patraeus, the head of U.S Central Command said on Friday that the U.S may have indeed violated international law.

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Former CIA Inspector General, John Helgerson, was summoned to meet with Vice President DICK Cheney beginning shortly after he had begun to investigate interrogation procedures that he ultimately concluded had violated some provisions of the International Convention Against Tortur …

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President Obama wants you to know that nothing is ever his fault.

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A coalition of left-wing advocacy groups filed legal ethics complaints on Monday against 12 former Bush administration lawyers, including three United States attorneys general, whom the groups accuse of helping to justify torture.

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There are reportedly hundreds of American troops involved in the activities shown in these pictures, not just a few.

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I don't know how else to interpret his obviously self-destructive grandstanding this weekend. But think of the long view for a moment. Here is a former vice-president, who enjoyed unprecedented power for eight long, long years.

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The rights [Yesh Din] group alleges they [Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), the Israeli civil administration and the mining companies] are illegally stripping Palestinian West Bank quarries of raw construction material for the benefit of the Israeli construction industry and the buil …

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Once upon a time, America was known around the world for its powerful, benevolent nature when handling captured enemy fighters.  Even our adversaries knew they could hoist the white flag and expect to be treated humanely.  In turn, this made them more likely to give up sooner.

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The arguments at the CIA safe house were loud and intense in the spring of 2002. Inside, a high-value terror suspect, Abu Zubaydah, was handcuffed to a gurney. He had been wounded during his capture in Pakistan and still had bullet fragments in his stomach, leg and groin.

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Demand an independent investigation into Israel's illegal use of white phosphorous against civilian populations in Gaza.

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A former State Department lawyer tells The Associated Press that the Bush administration panicked after 9/11 and tortured prisoners.

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Even out of power and away from the White House, former President George W. Bush seemingly cannot get away from calls for his prosecution.

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Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing war crimes during its recent 23-day assault of the Gaza Strip.

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A Pentagon review of conditions at the Guantanamo Bay military prison has concluded that the treatment of detainees meets the requirements of the Geneva Conventions but that prisoners in the highest-security camps should be allowed more religious and social interaction, according …

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In his first week in office, President Obama signed an executive order that would shut down the notorious U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year.

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The idea to bombard the closing ceremony of the Gaza police course was internally criticized in the Israel Defense Forces months before the attack.

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Are you mad, Mr. Yoo?

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According to survivors, about 100 members of the clan had been gathered by Israeli soldiers in a building in the Zeitun district on January 4th. The next day, it was struck by Israeli shells or missiles, killing about 30.

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Israel stands accused of perpetrating a series of war crimes during a sustained 12-hour assault on a village in southern Gaza last week in which 14 people died. A woman cries as she holds the body of one of her relatives at the mortuary of Al-Shifa hospital on January 16, 2009.

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