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The U.N. Secretary-General said Tuesday that the world is failing to live up to its commitments to protect civilians, an obligation that is preserved in international humanitarian law. "Peace is the best form of protection," Antonio Guterres told a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the topic. "We must intensify our efforts to prevent…

Antonio Guterres says international humanitarian law must be upheld in conflicts

Humanitarian content from International Committee of the Red Cross

Targeted killings are a somewhat ill-defined term. There is no set definition under International Humanitarian Law (IHL).

As the case of Israel's illegal use of white phosphorus during Operation Cast Lead shows, the US media try to cover up US complicity in Israeli war crimes.

The New Zealand Government sanction of the Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova is one further expressing concern about alleged war

This report documents torture, killings, rapes, forced expulsions, and other war crimes committed by Serbian and Yugoslav government forces against Kosovar Albanians between March 24 and June 12, 1999, the period of NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia. The report reveals a coordinated and systematic campaign to terrorize, kill, and expel the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo that was organized by the highest levels of the Serbian and Yugoslav governments in power at that time.

In an election-related debate last year, I emphasized that the international order has become increasingly multipolar.

Analysis of the ICRC's updated Commentaries to the Geneva Convention for Prisoners of War (POWs).

Former U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes David J. Scheffer and Kristin Smith discuss whether U.S. domestic law is adequately equipped to prosecute atrocities as Congress wants.