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23 Jan 2024, 6:05 am by Richard J. Rogers
Rather, war crimes will be prosecuted under article 438 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code, “violations of rules of warfare”, which covers serious violations of customary or applicable conventional IHL, such as the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I, as well as weapons treaties, such as the Chemical Weapons Convention. [read post]
23 Jan 2024, 5:40 am by Rosa-Lena Lauterbach
Article 23 para. 2 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which (given its customary nature) applies universally, also upholds that a party to the conflict may satisfy itself that there are no legitimate reasons to deny access to humanitarian aid or to otherwise withhold consent. [read post]
18 Jan 2024, 8:32 am by Michael W. Meier
   This view is reiterated in the 2016 ICRC Commentary to the First Geneva Convention. [read post]
18 Jan 2024, 5:50 am by Gaiane Nuridzhanian
While the outbreak of hostilities in Gaza has, to a large extent, pushed the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine out of the headlines, it is imperative that the international community not lose sight of the importance of bringing Russia’s aggression to an end. [read post]
17 Jan 2024, 6:29 am by Nicholas Rostow
This history explains why little in the Hague or Geneva Conventions (or Protocols) is absolute. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 8:05 am by Yuval Shany
First, Israel claimed that its military actions did not amount to violations of the actus reus requirement of the Genocide Convention. [read post]
 Under Article 79 of the Geneva Convention, journalists “engaged in dangerous professional missions” in war zones are seen as civilians, extending the same protections to journalists and civilians local to a conflict zone under the Rome Statute. [read post]
10 Jan 2024, 7:30 am by Sean Murphy
Indeed, a documentary appendix to the Manual (pp. 1161 et seq.) identifies the relevant treaties to which the United States is a party, such as the 1907 Hague and 1949 Geneva Conventions and the Biological Weapons Convention. [read post]
Civilians are protected under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and Geneva Conventions. [read post]
30 Dec 2023, 4:39 am by Rob Robinson
We utterly condemn these Russian violations of the laws of armed conflict, Geneva Conventions, and humanity even though we do not describe them in these reports. [read post]
23 Dec 2023, 6:27 am by Rob Robinson
We utterly condemn these Russian violations of the laws of armed conflict, Geneva Conventions, and humanity even though we do not describe them in these reports. [read post]
22 Dec 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
   From In Custodia Legis: "A history of blasphemy laws in the United States"; "Clara Barton and the Geneva Convention. [read post]
22 Dec 2023, 6:00 am by Sarah Friedman
The United States was not a party to the Geneva Convention in 1864. [read post]
21 Dec 2023, 5:32 am by Leonard Rubenstein
The theory harks back to the influential nineteenth-century intellectual and military theorist Francis Lieber, who advanced it around the very time the first Geneva Convention was being developed. [read post]
20 Dec 2023, 9:01 pm by Samuel Estreicher
This body of customary international law, which was codified in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their subsequent protocols, limits the use of force to the following situations: military necessity; where a distinction is made between combatants and non-combatants; and where the use of force is proportionate to the concrete military objective sought to be achieved.Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) attacks on Hamas military targets in Gaza, thus far, almost certainly comply with… [read post]
Since the conflict began, Ukrainian officials, the UN, and the ICC have reported violations of the Geneva Conventions. [read post]
Under Article 79 of the Geneva Convention, journalists “engaged in dangerous professional missions” in war zones are seen as civilians, extending the same protections to journalists and civilians local to a conflict zone under the Rome Statute. [read post]