Where does lie the semblance of international humanitarian law?

As for the common knowledge and legal understanding, the true implementation/ application of the international humanitarian law does mean to restrict the armed conflict between the states, groups and certain individuals so that there should not be any violation regarding the human rights norms envisaged or protected under the UN charter, particularly with reference to the universal declaration of human rights by the UN General Assembly in Dec, 1948. Yet this law of war is being deviously ignored or put aside by the very inception of the US war on terror.The international community registers its deepest discontent regarding the question of semblance of international law that is not getting its due reverence ( both in form and spirit) by those powers who just believe in their own strategic doctrine of utility and redefine the law by making new turns and twists into it.