The country had invited 196 parties to the conventions to participate in Geneva but then told them the gathering had been ...

Switzerland has cancelled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territories for want of participants, four diplomatic sources told Reuters on Thursday, ...

Switzerland on Thursday canceled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, for want of participants, in what Israel’s Foreign Ministry ...

GENEVA, March 6 (Reuters) - Switzerland has cancelled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territories for want of participants, its Foreign ...

A video circulating online captures a man running towards Jaishankar's car and tearing the Indian national flag in front of ...

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 ...

Switzerland was convening the meeting in its role as home to the Geneva Conventions that aim to protect civilians during armed conflict. Plans for the meeting were announced in the autumn and ...

That book laid the groundwork for the first Geneva Convention in 1864. The current version—the fourth—was drafted after ...