Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, stated that the continued evacuation orders ...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern on Friday over the compatibility of recent Israeli evacuation orders with international humanitarian ...

The United Nations has raised serious alarm over the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, warning that the situation may amount to crimes under international law. Forced Displacement and Shrinking ...

The enforcement of the Geneva Conventions lies in states themselves, and therein lies the weak spot in IHL: The laws seem to protect on paper but are difficult to enforce in practice. A drone view ...

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) welcomes the series of landmark updates to ILO’s Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) ...

Seafarers officially recognised as ‘key workers’ after successful Geneva negotiations The Seafarers’ Group at the ILO led by ...

On August 22, 1864, they signed the first Geneva Convention, agreeing that those wounded in war, as well as the people and facilities catering to the wounded, would merit non-belligerent status.

The humanitarian laws included in the Geneva Convention mandate that “prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated and protected against acts of violence, intimidation, insults ...

Four Palestinians were injured on Tuesday in an attack by Israeli colonists on park-goers at Ein al-Awja, north of Jericho, ...

Speaking at a press conference in Geneva, Shamdasani stressed that the permanent displacement of civilians within occupied territories amounts to forcible transfer, constituting a grave breach of ...