Geneva Conventions

It defines a "war crime" as any "grave breach" of the Geneva Conventions, including torture, cruel or inhuman treatment, and sexual assault or abuse. The penalty is to be "imprisoned for life or any term of years...if death results to the victim...the penalty of death." From reading the law, it's very hard to see ...

Despite the executive order President Obama signed on his first day in office to close GITMO, it remains open to this day and Donald Trump has promised to “load it up with some bad dudes,” Geneva Conventions be damned. Indeed, Secretary of Defense James (“Mad Dog”) Mattis has said that the ...

By preventing the rescue and/or extrication of wounded or dead, the Israeli military is violating both international humanitarian law and Israeli laws governing warfare anchored in the Geneva Conventions. Articles 15 and 17 of the Fourth Geneva Convention concern the treatment and evacuation of ...

Due to the Geneva Conventions, medical personnel can only carry a weapon for self-defense, so a CSH must also be wary of advances from the enemy, Dandy said. In a combat zone, if a hospital takes heavy artillery fire or is in danger of being overrun by the enemy, it must be capable of jumping to ensure ...

... the Security Council after Israeli soldiers reportedly killed at least 15 Palestinian protesters and wounded about one thousand others along the border fence, said the Israeli military was in violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions. On Friday, thousands of Palestinians started ...

He is about to become Donald Trump's personal national security advisor with a staff of 400 right next to the White House. He must be stopped! For Bolton, the Constitution, federal law, the Geneva Conventions, and other international laws are pieces of paper to be thrown away with unctuous contempt.

It defines a "war crime" as any "grave breach" of the Geneva Conventions, including torture, cruel or inhuman treatment, and sexual assault or abuse. The penalty is to be "imprisoned for life or any term of years ... if death results to the victim ... the penalty of death." The high ground of War Crimes morality ...

This has led to a vast spectrum of third rows that range from surprisingly spacious and comfortable to chairs that may contravene the Geneva Conventions, were they to be used in a time of conflict. So what should you look for if you are considering a seven-seat SUV? The first thing to do is to decide exactly ...

As the occupying power, Israel has an obligation under the Geneva Conventions to protect the civilian population. Israel is also required by law to avoid transferring its own population (settlers) into the occupied territory. It ignores and shuns these moral obligations. Israel resorts to collective punishment of ...

He didn't know that Mattis regularly consulted a personal library of some 7,000 volumes on history and strategy, that (like most generals) he's not too keen to go to war unless he really has to, and that (also like most generals) he takes the Geneva Conventions seriously and opposes torture. In recent weeks ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The targeting of hospitals and humanitarian workers during modern-day war constitutes a new level of barbaric tactic that violates not just morality but the Geneva Conventions. The aptly titled documentary “The New Barbarianism,” which makes its PBS debut Saturday night on Rhode ...

Kassem argues that the Geneva Conventions provide clear law in the context of detention in an international armed conflict (IAC), but the law is not as clear in a NIAC. (Kassem concedes the conflict in question morphed over time from an IAC to a NIAC.) The reason, according to Kassem, that the existence ...

A few years ago, two girls from the International School of Monterey created a History Day documentary on the Geneva Conventions. The Geneva Conventions came about partly through the efforts of Swiss citizen Henri Dunant, who witnessed the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino with thousands of ...

Second, why the secretary-general believes "we have not been able to discuss" the application of international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions, to cyberwar is perplexing. Despite the lack to date of any cyber operations triggering armed conflict, intergovernmental, governmental, and ...

While western hostages around the world easily make headlines, the local prisoners in conflicts are less reported on and even less often identified. Yet, they serve as important tools of propaganda and deterrence when filmed and exposed on the internet. New conflicts tend to move further and further into the information ...

President Masood Khan also condemned the killing of 6 innocent Kashmiris in Shopian, in a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions. The victims of these gruesome murders, he said, were not combatants and were not participating in any hostilities. The Joint Resistance Leadership, he said, have alleged ...

Earlier this week, the HDP warned that Turkish intentions were in contravention of international law and amounted to a war crime according to the Geneva Conventions. The US, Russia (which gave the green light for Turkey's invasion), the Syrian state, the UN, or independent human rights organizations ...

EVERY year on 8th of March, International Women's Day is celebrated as worldwide event to honour women's accomplishments from political to social achievements and thus raising voice for gender equality. It has been observed since the early 1900s and is now recognised each year on March 8.

In response to the attack, Trump ordered strikes of Tomahawk missiles against Syrian sites from which the weapons were launched. That action was commendable, but there have been no follow-up strikes against Syria after it has renewed its campaign, which violates the Geneva Conventions against use ...

Under Geneva conventions, parties to an armed conflict bear the responsibility of providing care to the wounded. But in Mosul, humanitarian actors soon realized that Iraqi and Kurdish forces lacked the medical personnel necessary to care for their own soldiers, let alone civilians injured in the conflict.

“The government's plans to transfer 350,000 refugees to Afrin under a campaign of invasion is an attempt of demographic change in contravention of the international law, and a downright war crime according to the Geneva Conventions,” a statement on the HDP's website read. At the beginning of the offensive to capture ...

“Under the Geneva Conventions, this was clearly the responsibility of the Iraqi military,” says Dr. Paul Spiegel, the director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins University. “But the Iraqi military just did not have the capacity to do it.” The Iraqi Army barely had enough medics to tend to its ...

Alexander De Croo: “Civilians in conflict zones are being targeted indiscriminately and communities are being starved. Assistance meant for victims must not be seized by belligerent parties. Rules set out in the Geneva Conventions apply in times of war. The International Committee of the Red Cross works ...

“Crafting Digital Geneva Conventions should be done by international coalition. Cybersecurity experts from private sector and the governments should work together on drafting it. Then governments of different countries would need to ratify the conventions.” Impacts re critical infrastructure attacks:.

... Cultural Rights, the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.” She urge forming “an independent international commission of inquiry to investigate the unlawful violations and egregious crimes committed by the Israeli occupation.".

The [International Committee of the Red Cross's (ICRC)] fundamental principles dictate that aid should be delivered without discrimination based on political belief and that the organization should remain neutral in conflicts — but the Geneva Conventions and the U.N. resolutions creating the humanitarian ...