Fair and Unfair Play: Regulating Means and Methods of Warfare

... affected by military conflict. The third article, common to all four of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, refers to the need for humane treatment of the wounded, the prohibition on taking hostages, the ban on torture and degrading treatment [ 3 ]. Why is humanitarian law one of the most codified and least respected branches of international law these days? Elena Korolkova: International Regulation of Private Military and Security Companies Indeed, why is it that in the progressive 21 st century we keep reading the news about the mockery of the wounded, the shootings of POWs ...