As the president and Congress debate whether detainee-treatment procedures outlined in the Geneva Conventions need to be clarified, host Alex Chadwick talks with military law professor Gary Solis ...

New information was revealed today indicating that decisions by Bush administration political appointees to ignore the advice of senior military and State Department officials led directly to the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GENEVA (AP) — At its 75th anniversary, the ...

The Bush administration objects to the clause in Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions that prohibits "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No matter where a war is happening, civilians get caught in the middle — but where exactly is the line between acceptable ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, FL (formerly at Ann Arbor, MI) examines the relevance of the four Geneva Conventions signed in August 1949, 60 years ago this ...

THE SUPREME Court on Thursday dealt the Bush administration a stinging rebuke, declaring in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld that military commissions for trying terrorist suspects violate both U.S. military law ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Mirjana Spoljaric Egger poses ...

GENEVA (AP) — At its 75th anniversary, the world’s best-known rulebook on the protection of civilians, detainees and wounded soldiers in war has been widely ignored — from Gaza to Syria to Ukraine to ...