In 1974 a conference was convened in Geneva to rewrite the humanitarian law of war.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | The Senate Should Send The PLO A Message: There??s No Hijacking International Law

The possibility that terrorists might exploit such a bastardization of traditional humanitarian law of war is not merely idle speculation.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | The Senate Should Send The PLO A Message: There??s No Hijacking International Law

This large body of international human-rights and humanitarian law (the modern term for the laws of war) is historically unprecedented.

ECONOMIST: A survey of human-rights law