Geneva Conventions

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• US legal advisor says Washington wants to sign cluster munitions protocol

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 448
  Update 12:10  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The US intends to negotiate a legally binding protocol on cluster munitions under the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), says Harold Hongju Koh, legal advisor to the US Department of State. Koh told a meeting on the Geneva Conventions at the ICRC ...
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• Israel Persecutes Israeli Arab MK

  
  Palestine Think Tank — Authority: 521
  The Israeli Public Prosecution in the Magistrates Court of Tel Aviv – Jaffa imposed a serious indictment against the Israeli MK (member of the Knesset), Mohammad Barakeh, a Hadash representative. The court accused Barakeh of assaulting police and soldiers on four different occasions over a period of two years since ...
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• Israel Persecutes Israeli Arab MK

  
  Kawther Salam The Daily Life of Kawther Salam — Authority: 118
  The Israeli Public Prosecution in the Magistrate’s Court of Tel Aviv – Jaffa imposed a serious indictment against the Israeli MK (member of the Knesset), Mohammad Barakeh, a Hadash... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• BIICL: The Geneva Conventions and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups

  
  International Law Reporter — Authority: 143
  Christine Chinkin (LSE - Law), Jenny Kuper (LSE - Law), and Louis Lillywhite (Surgeon-General, Defence Medical Services) will speak today at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on "The Geneva Conventions and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups." This is the fourth in a series of ...
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• The Siege on Gaza Continues

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  While Israel bears direct responsibility for the persecution of the Gaza Palestinians, many others are complicit. Most complicit is the Obama Administration, which has done nothing to end the siege,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• President Obama Signs Military Commissions Changes Into Law

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 540
  Dandelion SaladAmerican Civil Liberties Union10/28/2009Fatally Flawed System Is Beyond Repair, Says ACLUFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.orgWASHINGTON – President Obama today signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes significant changes to the Guantánamo ...
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• War crimes arrest likely if Olmert visits UK

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • Prosecution of Israelis likely, says solicitor • Lawyers working on use of universal jurisdiction Ehud Olmert, Israels prime minister during the Gaza war, would probably face arrest on war crimes charges if he visited Britain, according to a UK lawyer who is working to expand the application of "universal ...
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• The Military Commission Act of 2009: New AND Improved?

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 435
  Congress passed several amendments to the Military Commissions Act last Thursday, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 . President Barack Obama is likely to sign the legislation tomorrow. There is much of importance — some good, some less good — in this legislation. Given our ...
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• Wheres the Outrage 166 - Senate-Approved Changes To Guantánamo Military Commissions Dont Fix Fatal Flaws

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This press release, from the ACLU, was posted to War Criminals Watch, October 22, 2009 WASHINGTON – The Senate today passed the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes significant changes to the Guantánamo military commissions. The House approved the legislation earlier this month and the bill now ...
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• War Criminals In High Places, hold the bastards accountable for their crimes - Judge Refuses to Dismiss War Crimes Case Against Blackwater

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Jeremy Scahill, was published by The Nation, October 22, 2009 On Wednesday, a federal judge rejected a series of arguments by lawyers for the mercenary firm formerly known as Blackwater seeking to dismiss five high-stakes war crimes cases brought by Iraqi victims against both the company and its ...
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• The Case for War Crimes Trials — Is Rupert Murdoch the Julius Streicher of Our Time?

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 650
  There is an open-and-shut case for War Crimes Trials against Tony Blair and all others involved in the planning and commission of the aggressive, immoral and illegal war against Iraq. Furthermore, there is also a prima facie case against the media bosses who deliberately incited the war against Iraq. The chief ...
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• Cruelty cognizant

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 435
  Tucked in the recent ASIL Insight by our colleague, Vanderbilt’s Ingrid Wuerth , is an intriguing observation: There’s a circuit split on whether victims of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment may recover under the Alien Tort Statute . Such mistreatment has long been forbidden in international ...
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  BoredWrestlingFan.com — Authority: 128
  
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• War Criminals In High Places, hold the bastards accountable for their crimes - National Lawyers Guild and other human rights groups issue open letter to Eric Holder

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This open letter, from the National Lawyers Guild, was posted to the Atlantic Free Press, October 10, 2009 We, the undersigned, are writing to request that you hold firm against any attempts by former Vice President Dick Cheney, the CIA directors, and the media to silence those who demand that the United States hold ...
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• Israeli Army Violated Nuremberg Principles During Operation ‘Cast Lead’

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 141
  By Cesar Chelala, Information Clearing House , Oct 15, 2009 In what can be considered a sad paradox of history, an analysis of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) actions during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza shows that the IDF violated several of the Nuremberg Principles, as well as the principles of the Geneva ...
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• Agent Orange in Vietnam: Ignoring the Crimes Before Our Eyes

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 500
  Thai Thi Nga, 16, 2nd-generation viction of US Agent Orange use in the Vietnam War On Oct. 13, the New York Times ran a news story headlined, “ Door Opens to Health Claims Tied to Agent Orange ,” which was sure to be good news to many American veterans of the Indochina War. It reported that 38 years after the ...
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• Humanitarian Law Applies to All

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 548
  Humanitarian Law Applies to All By Tammy Obeidallah October 12, 2009 “ Information Clearing House ” — Throughout the world, people have attempted to distinguish ordinary Americans from the United States government. Perhaps our complacency for aiding and abetting war crimes has been attributed to lack ...
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• BIICL: Operationalizing the Geneva Conventions

  
  International Law Reporter — Authority: 143
  Rupert Hollins (Royal Navy, Assistant Head (Legal) UK Development Doctrine and Concepts Centre), Charles Garraway (former Army Legal Services Officer; British Red Cross, International Law Adviser (External)), and Michael Schmitt (George C. Marshall Center, College of International and Security Studies) will ...
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - "We Deeply Regret..."

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Colin Halinan, was published by Foreign Policy in Focus, September 30, 2009 "We deeply regret" are words that almost always end with something terrible. They were uttered by German Defense Minister Franz Joseph Jung in the wake of a September 4 airstrike that left upwards of 100 Afghans dead. He ...
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• Shutting down the machine - Retired Military Officers Push to Close Guantanamo Prison

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Peter Finn, was published by the Washington Post, September 30, 2009 A group of retired senior military officers on Tuesday backed the Obama administrations troubled effort to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, saying that those who oppose transferring detainees to the United States for ...
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