Article: Respecting the Conventions. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)

Article: Geneva Conventions provide help for POWs - when ...
The Washington Times;  April 2, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... treatment as prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions, a series of international agreements ... rules of war dating to 1864. The Geneva Conventions became familiar to a generation who ... or German interrogators cited the Geneva Conventions requiring them to give only their ...

Article: RIGHTS: BIG POWERS FAULTED FOR ABUSE OF GENEVA ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  August 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... United States of violating the Geneva Conventions governing the treatment of ... Washington at that time - "What Geneva Conventions? I thought we invaded Iraq, not Switzerland?" The Geneva Conventions of 1949, which will be 60 ...

Article: Bush Shifts Position on Detainees; Geneva ...
The Washington Post;  February 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... regime will be formally covered by the Geneva Conventions. But the president refused to confer ... of Afghanistan was a party to the Geneva Conventions, while Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda ... simply as a gesture of respect to the Geneva Conventions," said Ruth Wedgwood, an international ...

Transcript: WH: Geneva Conventions Apply to Detainees
NPR Morning Edition;  July 11, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Morning Edition 07-11-2006 WH: Geneva Conventions Apply to Detainees Host: STEVE INSKEEP ... entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions. The announcement follows the Supreme ... entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions. He said a lot of the details hes ...

Article: U.S. Shifts Policy on Geneva Conventions; Bowing to ...
The Washington Post;  July 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... administration has agreed to apply the Geneva Conventions to all terrorism suspects in U ... administration has contended that the Geneva Conventions would be respected as a matter of ... commissions violate U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions. More than 400 such detainees are ...

Article: Red Cross Honors 50th Anniversary of Geneva ...
PR Newswire;  May 6, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... the 50th Anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Conventions with an event entitled "The Promise ... participants spoke personally on the Geneva Conventions and their role in the current crisis ... governments agreed upon the current four Geneva Conventions still in force today. These ...

Article: Iraqi Prison Abuses Draw Attention to Geneva ...
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  May 12, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Tackett May 12--WASHINGTON -- The Geneva Conventions were born on a bloody battlefield ... chemical weapons and the Holocaust, the Geneva Conventions evolved to cover broader areas of ... military personnel erupting, the Geneva Conventions suddenly are drawing wide attention ...