United Nations Security Council Resolution 1888 was unanimously adopted on 30 September 2009. It was introduced by United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who also presided over the session.
Buffer zone in Nicosia
International humanitarian law, also known as jus in bello or the laws of armed conflict, is the law that regulates the conduct of war. It is a branch of international law that seeks to limit the effe
The First Geneva Convention of 1864.
The siege of Leningrad (pictured) killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, but was ruled legal by a United States military court. The 1949 Geneva Convention "accepted the legality of starvation as a weapon of war in principle".