- US 'Rewriting Rules on Prisoners' (February 8, 2002)
...ghts groups have criticised US President George W Bush's decision that the Geneva Conventions on the conduct of war will apply to captured Taleban soldiers,... - Saddam a POW, Red Cross Says (December 15, 2003)
...GENEVA — The international Red Cross said today it considers Saddam Hussein a pri... - Lawyers to Sue Blair for Iraq War in ICC (July 28, 2003)
...ched international treaties such as the Charter of the United Nations, the Geneva Conventions and the ICC's own Statute. But the British Government has... - Powell Asks Bush to Reverse Stand on War Captives (January 27, 2002)
...has asked President Bush to declare that the United States is bound by the Geneva Conventions in its treatment of the captives in Afghanistan and at Guant·n... - Bush Shifts Position on Detainees (February 7, 2002)
...ho fought for Afghanistan's Taliban regime will be formally covered by the Geneva Conventions. But the president refused to confer that status on detainees... - Ashcroft Refuses to Release Torture Memo to Congress (June 8, 2004)
...reports suggest the Bush administration is reinterpreting U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions prohibiting torture. Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) said t... - US Plans Death Camp (May 26, 2003)
... as logical by the US, which has been attacked worldwide for breaching the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war since it established the camp at a naval ba... - Fighter Plane's Laser May Blind Civilians (July 24, 2002)
...rcraft, ground vehicles and anti-aircraft batteries, it is exempt from the Geneva Convention's ban on blinding weapons. The ban came into force in 1996,... - Sharon Exploiting Left's Goodwill To Achieve Right's Political Goals (August 26, 2004)
... at the Camp David talks in July 2000, at Taba in January 2001, and in the Geneva Initiative that ended in 2003. The perpetual debate over whether at Camp D... - How Long Can Guantánamo Prisoners Be Held? (April 9, 2002)
...merica's moral authority in the global fight for human rights. What the Geneva accords say Under the Geneva Conventions, prisoners of war are to b... - The Camp that Became a Slaughterhouse (April 14, 2002)
...fused to allow ambulances in to treat them, which is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. The Red Cross has publicly said people have died because Isra... - US Occupying Iraqi Schools, Church (April 4, 2003)
...ish military headquarters or other operations in protected areas under the Geneva Convention," says Lt. Col. Gary Keck, a spokesman for the Department of De... - WTO Proposal Said To Threaten Food Aid Programs (July 27, 2004)
...reement's plan during the WTO meeting, which is scheduled to end Friday in Geneva. WTO officials want to reach a trade deal among the member countries unde... - British MPs Furious at Secret US Trials of 'Terror' Britons (July 8, 2003)
...ce minister Chris Mullin yesterday all but accused the US of breaching the Geneva convention as he expressed "strong reservations" about the secretive trial... - 'Unauthorized' Settlement Outposts (June 10, 2003)
... All settlements are illegal under international law. The Fourth Geneva Convention expressly prohibits an Occupying Power from deporting or transf... - Rich, Poor Countries' Rift Still Dogs World Trade Bargaining (July 27, 2004)
...ion Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy, held a flurry of bilateral meetings in Geneva on the sidelines of the WTO's ruling General Council. Officials have wa... - Iraqi Plan Calls for Full Elections Within 2 Years (December 16, 2003)
...ss (ICRC), Yves Sandoz, said that the United States would be breaching the Geneva Conventions if they tried to revoke his PoW status. "It's very clear in... - FBI Claims More Arab Prisoners Abused (December 20, 2004)
...d that military interrogators have gone far beyond the restrictions of the Geneva Conventions prohibiting torture and have followed an apparently new execut... - All the Makings of a War Crime (November 8, 2004)
...ad as appears inevitable, it will obviously breach the laws of war and the Geneva conventions. First, it will grossly exceed proportionality in terms of end... - False Hopes and Truth Serums (January 9, 2003)
...erican courts, and drugs cannot be used on prisoners-of-war under the 1950 Geneva Convention. However, the Convention Against Torture is less clear on the m... - UN Rushing Aid to Iraqi Children Before Start of War (March 10, 2003)
...GENEVA — The United Nations children's agency said Tuesday it is racing against t... - UN Resolutions Violated by Countries Other than Iraq (October 2, 2002)
...ied East Jerusalem and calls on Israel to scrupulously abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention regarding the responsibilities of occupying powers. 298 (197... - Refugee Count Inflated by Taliban (February 16, 2002)
...GENEVA — Taliban officials dramatically inflated the number of people living in A... - Aid Agencies Cut Programs in Afghanistan Amid Funding Problems (May 7, 2002)
...GENEVA – Aid agencies working in Afghanistan said Tuesday lack of funding was for... - Guantanamo Issue Took Two Years to Reach UN Commission (April 15, 2004)
...up by Havana Thursday before the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, shortly after a resolution condemning Cuba's human rights record narrowly... - Resolution on Iraq Delayed Over UN or US Rule (September 13, 2003)
...GENEVA, Sept. 13 — The United States and other leading nations on the Security Co... - Israel Threatens to Deport Relatives of 2 Fugitive Militants (July 20, 2002)
...moral blight on the State of Israel" and that the policy would violate the Geneva Convention against both collective punishment and deportation. "One of... - Evidence of a Massacre of Taliban Prisoners (June 29, 2002)
...t reported treatment of Taliban prisoners that systematically breached the Geneva Conventions at the end of November. At that time, American aircraft and he... - Has the U.S. Government Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq? (May 23, 2004)
...W. Bush that because “the war against terrorism is a new kind of war,” the Geneva Convention III on the Treatment of Prisoners of War need not be heeded. As... - "Misleading" Statistics Blame Crime on Foreigners (June 2, 2004)
...r many years and those who make quick trips over the border to places like Geneva with the intention of committing a crime, such as theft. Nevertheless,... - Israel Seen as Likely to Approve Barrier (October 1, 2003)
... further from the two-state goal." A report released on Tuesday in Geneva by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights said the barrier would ef... - Israeli Court Rules Relatives May Be Expelled (September 3, 2002)
...s been condemned by human rights organisations, who say it contravenes the Geneva Conventions and therefore constitutes a war crime - a charge that Israel d... - Indonesia Threatens Martial Law in Rebel Province (May 13, 2003)
...y small window here and it is closing quickly," said David Gorman from the Geneva-based Henry Dunant Center, which brokered the agreement. "But it's not dea... - UN General Assembly Expected to Condemn Israel (May 5, 2002)
.... Israel has nothing to hide A member of the aborted UN team said in Geneva on Friday that he regretted the mission had been canceled as it could have... - Abuse of Iraqi POWs by GIs Probed (April 29, 2004)
...le they view as important.” Frederick says he didn’t see a copy of the Geneva Convention rules for handling prisoners of war until after he was charged.... - US Loses Block on UN Torture Convention (July 25, 2002)
... The text was accepted in an April vote by the Human Rights Commission in Geneva. The United States didn't participate in that vote because it lost its sea... - US Military Pioneers Death Ray Bomb (August 14, 2003)
...ndré Gsponer, director of the Independent Scientific Research Institute in Geneva, told New Scientist. Just one gram of the explosive would store more e... - Pressure Has Place in War, Some Say (May 3, 2004)
... the shoe were on the other foot?" Torture is prohibited under the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the United Nations' Convention against Torture and Other C... - Children Held in Guantánamo Detention Centers (April 24, 2003)
... to view them as "enemy combatants" — a term it has used to argue that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to the inmates, who have not been charged with an... - The Roots of Torture (May 24, 2004)
...an approach that they adopted to sidestep the historical safeguards of the Geneva Conventions, which protect the rights of detainees and prisoners of war. I... - More Israelis Challenging Sharon (November 23, 2003)
...heir own political initiatives. The model peace agreement, known as the Geneva Accord, was distributed in mailboxes across Israel last week in an attempt... - Torturing Iraq in an Unnecessary War (May 4, 2004)
... prisoners should already have been released in accordance with the Fourth Geneva Convention. A U.S. Army report noted that more than 60 percent of the civi... - Multinationals Show Their Global Muscle (March 23, 2004)
...ommission on Human Rights (UNCHR), currently holding its annual meeting in Geneva, is expected to avoid any vote and instead to return the "Norms on Busines... - A20 Analysis: On Stopping Open-Ended, Permanent War (April 25, 2002)
...ns confused about extending internationally recognized treatment under the Geneva Convention. The protestors' central observation is that these actions w... - Angry Iraqi Town Buries Nine Police Killed by US (September 13, 2003)
...d's death. Powell will travel to Kuwait and Iraq after Saturday's talks in Geneva on Iraq's future. In Falluja, two other Iraqi security personnel injure... - Rape in Darfur (October 27, 2004)
...exual violence. Rape can, depending on the circumstances, violate the 1949 Geneva Conventions, the 1948 Genocide Convention, and the 1984 Torture Convention... - America Rattles Saddam's Cage, Hoping He Will Lash Out (July 13, 2002)
...and was delighted by the failure of the latest round of talks last week in Geneva. Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Defence Secretary and a leading proponent of a... - Israel Targets Palestinian Moderate (July 10, 2002)
..., which human rights groups said included Israeli violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Israel, which escaped a UN investigation through US interv... - Quiet Negotiations Develop Possible Mideast Peace Plan (November 2, 2003)
...onclusion. The final result of this heroic effort soon will be revealed in Geneva. Their plan proposes a two-state solution. It would settle the conflict... - U.S. Blocks U.N. Rebuke of Israel for Assassination (March 23, 2004)
...of the Security Council that have the power to veto any resolution. In Geneva, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights voted to hold a special session on We... - Occupation Economic Reforms of Dubious Legality (January 10, 2004)
...The United States signed both the Hague Regulations of 1907 and the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and has incorporated their mandates regarding occupatio... - American Exceptionalism (October 25, 2004)
...uring war, sometimes flouts them. Recently, the United States violated the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners by capturing prisoners outside t... - Torture in Iraq: Appalling. Politicians’ Reactions? Not Much Better. (May 11, 2004)
...capture to declare him a prisoner of war, subject to the protection of the Geneva Convention. Was this period used to “soften him up” for interrogation? ... - Bush Defies The Supreme Court By Denying Due Process To Noncitizen Prisoners (July 23, 2004)
...ls are holding terror suspects secretly in locations across the world. The Geneva Conventions on the conduct of warfare require the United States to give th... - Interrogation Abuses were 'Approved at Highest Levels': Surfacing Evidence (June 13, 2004)
...ce Department officials and the White House lawyer, Alberto Gonzalez, that Geneva Conventions on torture did not apply to "unlawful combatants", captured du... - Overthrow Now, Pay Later (April 20, 2003)
...at Eisenhower and Dulles decided to try it one more time — in Vietnam. The Geneva accords that ended the French war in Indochina in 1954 called for simultan... - Iraq's Humanitarian Crisis (March 28, 2003)
...cause soldiers and civilians both wear shoes. Well, there's nothing in the Geneva accords about that." Surviving the war may not mean surviving, though.... - Iraq and Poison Gas (September 23, 2002)
...se to frustrate the Senate's attempt to penalize Baghdad for violating the Geneva Protocol on Chemical Weapons, which it had signed. This led Saddam to beli... - Gamma-Ray Weapons Could Trigger Next Arms Race (August 13, 2003)
...ndré Gsponer, director of the Independent Scientific Research Institute in Geneva, believes that a nation without such weapons would not be able to fight on... - Settlements As Wings Of Desire, As Answer For Confused Soul (October 12, 2004)
... light and dark ... not even the judgment of the people who formulated the Geneva initiative and attorney generals." Here's what Aviner, Segal and their... - Anti-War Push Brings More Time for Iraq Diplomacy (February 16, 2003)
... and Paul Taylor in Brussels, Alastair Macdonald in Paris, Robert Evans in Geneva, Mark Bentley in Ankara... - Int'l Red Cross Calls Guantánamo Detentions 'Intolerable' (October 10, 2003)
...e public criticism. The International Committee of the Red Cross, based in Geneva, is the sole group outside the government allowed to inspect the main dete... - Fallujah and the Reality of War (November 9, 2004)
...al closing (not the only such that I documented in Iraq) also violates the Geneva Convention. In Fallujah, you were rarely free of the sound of artillery... - Israel Approves Bush Proposal, Defies UN (April 28, 2002)
...week "to discuss and coordinate on a broad range of current issues." In Geneva, a member of the U.N. fact-finding team said after the Israeli decision th... - Border Issues Ruffle Relations Among Central Asian States (February 25, 2004)
...to civilians in border zones is a lack of accurate maps of minefields. The Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) mission has conclud... - UK, EU to Protest US Military Tribunals (July 7, 2003)
... a hearing to determine whether they qualify as prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention. Washington has instead insisted that all of the detainees are... - Who's Who in Iraq (October 11, 2002)
... Saddam Hussein at a meeting with the US Secretary of State James Baker in Geneva just before the Gulf War. From that moment, war was inevitable. Na... - The Disintegration of Palestine (April 29, 2004)
... anger so deep that they could no longer express it? 2. Does the Geneva Accord signed last December still offer any hope for peace? The fifty-thre... - In the Land of Guantánamo (June 27, 2003)
...me," he said. "Does it seem strange to you?" III. A Very Long Way From Geneva The detention-and-interrogation operation at Guantánamo Bay is clea... - You Break It, You Pay For It (December 22, 2004)
...corkscrews continues to wield more influence in the United States than the Geneva Conventions and the US Army's Law of Land Warfare combined. As Bob Woodwar... - Rumsfeld's Muddy Quagmire (December 6, 2004)
... the very least, created a climate of disdain in the U.S. military for the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners. This climate led to the un-Amer... - More Bombing Casualties Alleged (January 4, 2002)
... stage what we're really facing," said Darcy Christen, a spokesman for the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross. With security still a majo... - US Allowed Weapons to Flood Iraq (July 17, 2003)
...s of the sort Iraq used in its wars against Iran and Kuwait. Under the Geneva Conventions, the United States is responsible for law enforcement in Iraq... - Even if Palestine Wins at The Hague... (February 24, 2004)
...igrants in those territories constitute a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War a... - Scientists Still Deny Iraqi Arms Programs (July 31, 2003)
...emer's office, said her husband's status "is being investigated" under the Geneva Conventions to see whether he is entitled to prisoner of war status or som... - Gonzales OK could be seen as OK for torture rules (February 2, 2005)
...ainst Gonzales is a memo he wrote Bush on Jan. 25, 2002, advising that the Geneva Conventions were inapplicable to captured members of al Qaeda or other sus... - Officers Say US Aided Iraq in War Despite Use of Gas (August 17, 2002)
...ether the United States should press for a new chemical weapons ban at the Geneva Disarmament Conference. Mr. Shultz declined further comment.`... - The Law of War (February 14, 2004)
... when one set of rules should apply instead of the other. For example, the Geneva Conventions — the principal codification of war rules — apply to "armed co... - Euphemisms for Israeli Settlements Confuse Coverage (June 26, 2002)
... lasting peace." Resolution 446 also calls on Israel to observe the Fourth Geneva Convention, which states that an occupying power "shall not deport or tran... - Blair 'Obsessed' with Place in History via Iraq (May 12, 2003)
...at the coalition are occupying powers in occupied territory. Under the Geneva Convention of 1949 and the Hague regulations of 1907 the coalition has cle... - The Gray Zone (May 24, 2004)
...works to be illegal combatants, and not eligible for the protection of the Geneva Conventions.) Rumsfeld and Cambone went a step further, however: they... - Empires As Ages Of Religious Ignorance: George W. Bush's Crusade And American Fundamentalism (November 15, 2004)
...e state in New England (reminiscent of the theocratic doctrines adopted in Geneva from the Swiss theologian Thomas Erastus, 1524-1583), where formal governm... - The Coming Trial of Saddam Hussein (December 15, 2003)
...hink that depriving a U.S. citizen of access to a lawyer, or violating the Geneva Conventions with the prisoners who are already in U.S. custody in Guantána... - Torture at Abu Ghraib (May 10, 2004)
...he picture he draws of Abu Ghraib is one in which Army regulations and the Geneva conventions were routinely violated, and in which much of the day-to-day m... - A Prayer for America (February 17, 2002)
...ainees in Guantanamo Bay. We did not authorize the withdrawal from the Geneva Convention. We did not authorize military tribunals suspending due pro... - Tough New Tactics by US Tighten Grip on Iraqi Towns (December 7, 2003)
... "Well, I guess what we need to do is go back to the laws of war and the Geneva Convention and all of those issues that define when a structure ceases to... - The Death Convoy of Afghanistan (August 26, 2002)
... conduct of allies who may have no—interest in applying protections of the Geneva Conventions. The benefit in fighting a proxy-style war in Afghanistan was... - The Privatization of War (December 10, 2003)
... mercenaries in armed conflicts. The use of mercenaries is outlawed by the Geneva conventions, but no one is accusing the Pentagon, while awarding more than... - I'm No Taliban ... Get Me Out Of Here (February 22, 2004)
...rganisation – al-Qaeda – the US will not be bound by the terms of the 1949 Geneva Convention which lays down legal guidelines for the proper treatment and p... - War Tactics – Again (November 22, 2003)
... International said on Friday that the demolitions appeared to violate the Geneva Conventions, U.S. commanders have made no apologies for their tougher tact... - Can Sharon Win By Force? (April 28, 2004)
...the Saudi plan that gathered so much international support, as well as the Geneva plan will be held in check along with any international or other interfere... - The Hand-Over that Wasn't: How the Occupation of Iraq Continues (July 1, 2004)
...y’s laws violates the Hague regulations of 1907 (the companion to the 1949 Geneva conventions, both ratified by the United States), and the U.S. Army’s Law... - The Pictures That Lost The War (May 2, 2004)
...rt, no training whatsoever,” he said, claiming he had never been shown the Geneva Convention. “I kept asking my chain of command for certain things like rul... - German Interior Minister on Deportations, Detainees, Iraqi Aid (September 15, 2003)
...y least they are not being held as prisoners of war in accordance with the Geneva Convention, because there was no belligerent party in Afghanistan. But the... - Torture Tactics Used on Terrorism Suspects Held in Secret Overseas (December 26, 2002)
...held, humanely and in a manner consistent with the principles of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949." The convention outlined the standards for treatmen... - The Making of a Muslim Holocaust (December 1, 2004)
...otests, the world community expressed shock and demanded observance of the Geneva Conventions, but the United States declared its prisoners to be beyond the... - Terror and Just Response (July 2, 2002)
...ors, the US boycotted -- thus undermined -- an international conference in Geneva that reaffirmed the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to the o... - Diplomatic Breakdown (April 27, 2003)
...aint hope that our prisoners of war will be treated in accordance with the Geneva Conventions. We ourselves had made clear that our security concerns overru... - Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq In Pursuit Of A Neocon Utopia (September 24, 2004)
...with their obligations under international law including in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Hague Regulations of 1907.” Both conventions w... - Dennis Kucinich and the Question (January 23, 2004)
...s in the Iraqi economy. Such privatization plans and practices violate the Geneva and Hague Conventions. We have to renounce those. We must let the world co... - Full Text of Bin Ladin 4 January Audio Message (March 4, 2004)
...ahidin in beloved Palestine by employing the trick of the road map and the Geneva peace initiative. This is in addition to the crusader media campaigns a... - Counterinsurgency Tactics in Iraq (January 11, 2004)
...n put him in a Mercedes and put myself in local garb, but if I do that the Geneva Conventions say I lose my rights and protections. Conventional soldiers do... - Electronic Markets and Activist Networks (January 8, 2004)
... the few truly global markets; together with Singapore, Hong Kong, Zurich, Geneva, Frankfurt and Paris, they account for 85% in this, the most global of mar... - The State of Security and Warfare of Demons (April 1, 2003)
... in the subsequent battle do not qualify to be prisoners of war as per the Geneva Convention. In dogmatic articulation, the first postulate does not have an...
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