Human rights organizations have addressed the Government of Switzerland, as depositary of the Geneva Conventions, to convene the High Contracting Parties (HCPs) of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilians in Time of War (1949). In a formal submission, the organizations echoed the call of the UN Fact-finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict and General Assembly resolution A/64/10. The organizations' concept paper details the obligations and options of the HCPs to "respect and ensure respect" for the Convention by way of enforcement through international cooperation, beyond the political talks that have characterized past conferences of the HCPs.

Read the document: Toward the Conference of High Contracting Parties of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949) on measures to enforce the Convention in the occupied Palestinian territory