International humanitarian law, also known as the law of war or the law of armed conflict, is supposed to spare civilians ...

saying such practices could amount to war crimes The U.N. human rights office says in a report that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem ...

Refusal to do so is a war crime. It’s likely that this is what purposefully killing the first born child in every family would today be called. We may ask, then, what it means that an act so ...

They discuss current efforts to prevent war crimes and hold leaders engaged in conflict to account. Clip: The Fog of War, RadicalMedia and SenArt Films, distributed by Sony Pictures Classics ...

The trial of a former Syrian army general over his alleged role in war crimes committed in 2012 in ... as well as a British photographer and a French journalist who were both injured in the ...

One way—which is the main mission of the Reckoning Project—is to ensure that at least some of those who have committed war crimes are held accountable in court. If authoritarian leaders remain ...

Russia but not President Vladimir Putin will be invited to the French ceremony in June to mark 80 years since the World War ...

Ukrainian human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk was awarded a Nobel Prize for her work documenting Moscow’s war crimes as head of the Center for Civil Liberties. She joins the show to ...

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza have seen Russia, Israel and Hamas all accused of committing war crimes. The subject of war crimes is also on my mind since I’m living in Tokyo at the moment.

Russia but not President Vladimir Putin will be invited to the French ceremony marking 80 years since the World War II D-Day ...